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Originally Posted by mtnmedic

That's so f#ing heart breaking Dzone. I'm pretty choked up after reading that, I'm so sorry to hear that ! My dad wad murdered in a robbery when I was 16. I have sorta a step Dad who's dying from cancer, everyday I'm just waiting for that phone call from my Mom. Shes 75 and takes care of him. I've been coming home to an empty house for years now, I can't begin to imagine what it's going to be like when I lose my Mom. Blessed Be Brother D.

Thats a lot to be dealing with too. My biological dad killed himself when I was 16. My step dad who raised me died way before I was ready for it. He was abusive when I was growing up but changed when I grew up but we weren't close. I always imagined showing him the land I was going to build on and him being proud of me. It hit me like a ton of bricks when he suddenly died of a pulmonary embolism about 8 years ago. Now my mom and I have always been very close and she has recently been diagnosed with Dementia of Lewy Bodies. It took forever to get that diagnosis. It has been an unreal horror. It will only get worse.

We spend a lifetime preparing to lose our parents but there is nothing that can prepare us.