PRINCE GEORGE – Dillon Adey passed suddenly in a tragic car accident fifteen years ago. It was a hardship on the family, who have given back to the community in their son’s name in a variety of ways.
“It’s good to help the kids,” noted Perry Adey in November of 2017. “We started out with just a business bursary. Golf tournaments gone over so well.”
But grief is not an easy thing to overcome and Dillon’s mother, Cindy was no exception.
“It took me a year to get my first breath in my life,” she says. “Really get it in. Because you’re just you’re so lost because it’s such a sudden thing and you have no idea how you’re supposed to react or how you should feel. Just that, you know, you’re just sad and everywhere you go, everything reminds you of him.”
After a year-long hiatus after Dillon’s passing, she opted to get back into the workforce. She chose to go to work at Tim Horton’s. Into an unlikely place.
“It was. It was,” she says with a chuckle. “But I knew it was the only place that I would be so busy that I wouldn’t be able to think about anything by work.”
But after fourteen years of filling Double-Double, after Double-Double and box after box of Timbits, Cindy has opted to step away from the headset. Tomorrow is her last day at the window. And she hasn’t heard the end of it from her customers.
“A lot of we’re going to miss you or know you can’t leave. You have to stay here. Or can I come to your house for coffee in the morning? I’m like, ‘Oh, no, not really.’ But so I’m getting a lot of like, we have such wonderful customers. ”
But now it’s time to move on to another stage of the grieving process.
“We have grandchildren now, too, which occupy our time. And that’s even better because, you know, they’re so young and so fun. So they take away a lot of that strain and stress and stress, too, you know? I mean, he’s always there and he’s always with us and you can feel them and whatnot. So it’s always it’s always good.”
But Cindy says Dillon will always be part of her life and his passing, as she says, is part of that life.
