DAD's in the hospital

[Fox Body]

Originally posted by aford50lx
...Life sux sometimes!!!!!!...

Sorry dude, but life sucks a whole lot of times. My dad is 63 as well. There has been at least 2 episodes where he has almost passed out b/c of the diuretics he had been taken for the recently discovered high blood pressure. I felt all alone and my mom was just getting all histerical during the episodes and my brother was away from home. Now the thoughts enter my mind of possibilities of losing him and/or my mom. There was a time when I got "THE PHONE CALL" from my mom at work saying " Honey, come to the hospital after work, they had to take your father to the emergency room." You get that SINKING morbid feeling of despair.

Everything is temporary, forgive me, but my good attitude about life has decreased a lot over the last few months. Moreover, a close friend of mine was rushed to the hospital and had surgery last Tuesday morning (6-10-03) for removal of a malignant tumor at the end of her small intestine. She is a VERY nice person and eats VERY healthfully, but she does not have a good heriditary history (from her parents). This is all a shock to anyone who knows her. Now we're waiting on the biopsy report to see if the cancer has spread. And you know what, I've gotten to the point where my attitude has just been purely pessimistic . Life just seems to STINK sometimes . .... you know what, let me just stop... you need encouragement and I don't think I'm helping..... please forgive me.

I guess the one major thing that helps me to deal with it all is my faith in God and knowing that whenever my parents go, that will not be the end of the matter. I will see them again.

Spend as much time with your dad as you can but also remember that if you were in his place and you had a son, you wouldn't want your son to go through a lot of pain and worry about you, so be strong for your dad and don't let him see you worry too much. If he's like most good dads, he cares about you more than he cares about himself and he wants you and your wife-to-be to be happy.