Thursday, December 8, 2011

Had a blood draw this morning for both my 3-month checkup and my annual.  Oh boy.  I get the rest of my annual next week.  Sooo looking forward to that.

Been going to the same lab for years, so took a while to find them in their new location.  Apparently, I’m not the only person who didn’t get the message that they moved in October.  LOL!  Their new space is in the building next to my family doctor’s, so even more convenient.  My compounding pharmacy is two buildings beyond that.  If the imagining center came across the street, I wouldn’t have to go anywhere else!

A coworker was kind enough to stick around so I could get the lab work done.  I was very sleepy and would have loved to just go home after, but we’re running too thin on scheduling these days.  No room for anyone else to take an extra day, so back I came, listening to the radio as I drove.  Bad idea.  I heard about today’s shootings at Virginia Tech.  It’s only been four years since VT saw the worst murder of students ever at an American school.  My cousin still works at VT, as does her husband and their son-in-law is a Blacksburg police officer.  One of the two initial dead this time was a cop.  Took quite a while to be sure he was campus police and not local.  Also took a bit to make certain they were all ok.  It appears now the officer had pulled over a car and the shooter walked up to him (not from the car) and simply shot him, then fled on foot to a nearby parking garage.  Shortly thereafter the police found a male corpse in the garage with a weapon near the body.  Was a few hours before investigators were willing to suspend the campus lockdown and announce there was no longer a threat.  They would not say so, but it appears the 2nd body was the shooter, dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  

It was hard enough worrying about my cousin and her family.  I cannot fully imagine what the families of students must have felt during the long hours when the media insisted the 2nd body was that of a student.  There must be only devastation for the family of the officer.  It escapes me entirely how the family of the shooter will cope.  I don’t want to try and imagine their dilemma, their pain, their confusion.  It’s too much.