Mrs CS

Tearing up in office.

For the last 9 years, I served a boss, CS, who was a legendary tyrant, especially during his younger days. There are stories of him throwing papers at staff and shouting at them because he felt they did a bad job at writing the paper.

I am pretty ok with him though we had an exchange once. I can't remember the details but he scolded me something along the lines of "stupid". I flared up and spoke loudly (and rudely I think) to him. People who know me would know that I'm usually a meek one when it comes to bosses. He must have really riled me up. Anyway, I apologised thereafter and he did too.

He mellowed down alot and in the last few years, I got along with him pretty well. Maybe it's because he's the same age as my mum, maybe it's because I travelled with him on official trips on many occasions. His PA has also told me several times that I'm one of his favourites.

His wife has been sickly since 9 years ago when she first had breast cancer. She recently had a relapse and a month plus ago she was found to have a brain tumour. It soon spread to her major organs. She had a lung procedure yesterday and was on GA. Unfortunately, her condition turned form bad to worse and she passed on within 6 hours of the procedure.

I texted CS to ask if he's ok. His reply broke my heart. He said he feels devastated. Devastated that he didn't get any chance to say any last words to her and she was just gone like that.

I'm bad with words. But I tried my best to say something comforting to him.

The whole team is going to visit him at his wife's wake tomorrow during lunch. I hope I don't cry there....

Rest in peace Mrs CS...
I'm sure both your sons will do well in their life and your husband will continue plodding on strongly and steadily as ever....