RIP Joyce Ruth Shannon

My Mom died today.

Or to put it more accurately, my Mom was found dead today. She had been dead a couple of days, probably since Sunday.

My brother found her when he went to pick her up for grocery shopping. He called me at work at 4:05 pm.

It's all too new, too raw, too unreal.

I watched the paramedics take her covered body out of her tiny apartment on a gurney and it felt like a scene from someone else's life.

Damn.