if either of my parents go before me, i’m not sure how i’ll handle it. my father is 88 and at this point i feel guilty not playing scrabble with him every single day (he’s obsessed with scrabble). I felt guilty having to leave there yesterday.
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I lost my mom when I was 19 and my dad passed about a year and a half later. I’ve often wondered what it would have been like to have them around through a portion of my adulthood. It was very difficult losing them so young and I’ve missed them terribly throughout my life since. While I do believe time heals all wounds, that is one that takes longer than most I’ve suffered so far and one that is never far beneath the surface.
My sympathies always go out to anyone who loses a parent regardless of when or how.
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I am not losing my parents young since i’m not young, but not sure I’ll be able to handle it at all at any age. I’ll probably get suicidal.
My father has been in and out of the hospital and rehab for things that just happen to people at his age. Thus far, he’s escaped death.
My mother is okay other than having some extreme back issues that’s making her life hell. She’s turning 80 next month though. She had breast cancer when I was 17, but it was caught early and chemo and radiation halted it. That was terrifying. The only reason it was caught early was because my grandmother who died from cancer a few years prior made my mother promise to check herself out. Prior to that she was lazy about it. Soon after my grandmother died, cancer was found in both my mother and grandfather and both wound up fine. My grandfather died of the flu years later.
Feeling for ya, bro.
I am lonely.
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My son’s Guinea pig was startled and jumped out of his arms, broke his foot - it’s no longer even attached. My husband is on the way to MedVet’s exotic pets department, but we have prepared my son for the worst.
“She’s not even a year old…” he said in between sobs.
This might make me terrible, but…while I hate to see him in pain, and him being this upset is making me cry (I don’t care much about the Guinea pig), I kind of hope he learns a life lesson from this. Something about the preciousness of life, or the consequences of actions, the responsibility of pets, the finality of death…they’re important lessons.
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We are lucky. They are able to splint/cast it and don’t need to amputate or put in a pin.
It’s been a long ass night.
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looks like a bad combover toupee on that long ass
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He even got a guinea pig cone of shame!
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Guinea Pigs in Space!
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It is difficult for me to fathom the extreme extent of some people’s selfishness. My faith in humanity is at an all time low right now.
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There are some nice humans out there. I’m sure you’ll find them. They might actually be some of the ones you already know. It’s nice to hear your thoughts on this forum both happy and sad - hopefully these particular sad thoughts will fade with time.
Thanks knoath. I am blessed with some truly fabulous people in my life. But the extent to which other people (my STBX, my stepbrother’s “girlfriend”, someone I mistakenly believed was a close friend) will lie to your face and hurt you without even thinking twice about it and twist the knife in your back afterwards just in case the initial stab didn’t hurt you enough is just astonishing to me.
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Oh ouch! Betrayal is especially nasty. I will send warm wishes your way.
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We are all capable of nearly anything given the “right” (wrong) circumstances. Logic/reason doesn’t always win vs. the emotional/hormonal side.
I wish you luck in finding support. There are online forums for everything. Find the right ones and lurk for a while. No matter what you went through, there are thousands who have gone through the same thing and have bared their soul online (anonymously). You will feel bad for a long time; that’s the downside of being a caring person with feelings.
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This prompted me to look for a “stepparents with toxic baby mamas” forum and TIL disengaging from your stepkids is the correct move. Look at me, nailing this whole stepmom thing.
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