My mum woke me up about forty minutes ago, at about 5:20 am, to tell me that my cousin had just suffered a massive brain haemorrhage, completely out of the blue, and had been flown to hospital for emergency surgery and could very possibly die.  There is apparently a cluster of veins in her brain, that have possibly been there her entire life, but weren’t meant to be there at all, which burst this morning.  She was just sitting there one minute, slumped over the next.  No warning.

Just after she told me this my uncle pulled in our driveway and my mum left to take him to the hospital (they’re from out of town).  She didn’t want me to have to wake up later to them in our house without me knowing why they were there.  So now I’m by myself, totally freaked out, shaking, cried a little bit, unlikely to get back to sleep, not knowing what to do so just going to tumblr.  My cousin is younger than me.  I’m terrified for her.