Today fucking sucked.
I work with kids with Autism. Today was a day I was with a teen whose mom recently had a stroke. She has been in the hospital for a week in the aftermath. I got alerted that someone was in the lobby to pick the kid up, but nobody had called or texted us that this was happening. I went to the lobby, and it was this big dude, like linebacker size, there waiting for him. I asked him if he was here for the client and that nobody alerted us.
I asked him if everything was alright, and then he just dropped his head and could only say, "My sister. My sister." He was my client's uncle. The kid's mom just had her heart stop earlier that day. Guy lost it righ there. I didn't know what to do, so I just hugged the guy and let him cry it out on my shoulder for a minute.
I have no idea if the kid will understand what happened. His uncle said that this past week, the kid would go to his mom's room and look inside like he wondered where she was. I just hate thinking about this kid sitting around wondering, "Where's mom?" I also don't know if his relatives are going to be able to take care of him like his mom did. It all just breaks my heart.