User blog comment:MichaelDiaz101/A Leave of Abscence/@comment-4059927-20180703063206

So I’m going to update you guys on what’s happened because, as painful as it is, I feel the community deserves to know what it is that is keeping me away. Three days ago my sister succeeded in ending her life. She was a month away from turning 27. She made an attempt last year around September but failed and my brother and I thought we were making progress on reaching out to her and being with her. In fact on her birthday we all planned a trip to Las Vegas for her. I’m completely emotionally and physically distraught. This is around the same time my father was shot and killed in 2012 as we’re about two weeks off and so that also hits hard as well.