Tragedy In My Family
Sunday, November 19th, 2006I just found out, my favourite uncle Saeed Khokar passed away this past Thursday morning 16 November, 2006 in Karachi, Pakistan due to oral cancer-related complications. He was in his early 40s.
I am heart broken over this news. He leaves behind 5 kids and a grieving widow, his eldest is only 16.
His oral cancer was discovered sometime in the summer, 7 months ago, I don’t even recall… rather don’t wish to recall.
It wasn’t supposed to end this way, his cancer just never went away, it just was so malignant that it grew at such a rapid pace down his throat to his tongue and his lungs that even I find it alarming. In the end, he was unable to talk, eat or rest…
I am not relishing the telling, infact I am mourning the passing. Life just seems so fragile and bonds between family feel taut and delicate. I do not know who to talk to about how this death has affected me. I felt writing about it might help me cope.
I still can’t believe next time I visit home, I won’t see him, talk with him and joke with him…
I still can’t believe the stark reality about the fragility of life.
May God give him eternal peace. He suffered overmuch in this world in the end.