Kicked in the stomach

While I was at the survival outing this weekend I had heard that a twenty-nine year-old person had died in Pullman. That is all I knew about it.

Today I went to the city of Pullman police department website. They have all the things that they respond to listed online. I found the report for the unattended death and that someone had called it in and it was on Merman Drive.

Later on there was a medical call I was going on with another reserve. I asked if he went on the unattended death call. He said he did not go. I asked if he knew anything about it. He said that he knew the guy had had several previous heart attacks. As soon as he said that my mind started to race.

I thought about Tory. He fit all the descriptors. He lived on Merman, he had past medical problems and he is about twenty-nine. So I got this sinking feeling in my gut.

When I was on scene of the medical call I was feeling sort of sick to my stomach. I saw a cop was there. When he was free for a minute I asked him if he was on the unattended death call. He said he was. I asked him if it was Tory. He said it was.

He is someone I use to work with at SCS and I would go over to his place once in a while and hang out. He was into many of the things I was in to. It was pretty shocking that he had died. Though he told me a while back that his doctors told him he was living on borrowed time, I still was not expecting something to happen.