My Father

[tiffleigh]

My father passed away yesterday. Lung cancer borne from a lifetime of heavy smoking, and the inevitability of the complications that arose from it: words that are tricky to spell and pronounce, and of which I have no true understanding - "pleurisy," "metastasized," - stick like splinters in my tongue and brain

Comments

[joifulgirl]

I'm really sorry for your loss, sweetheart. I'm always here if you need someone to talk to.

[tiff_seattle]

i am so sorry to hear this :(

[ursulahitler]

I'm very sorry to hear this, both that your father has died and that things were so difficult between you while he was alive.

[janhatesmarcia]

But I'm mourning the never-realized possibility of the positive, healthy life he could have lived but didn't, and the positive, healthy relationship we could have had, but hadn't.

I went through the same thing when my alcoholic dad died 6 years ago.

Sad.

Be well.