I'm so sorry Biggles. :no: My heart goes out to you because this is hard....
I'm not really sure how well I'm coping. I will be okay and then I'll randomly burst into tears. ><
Something will remind me of him or a memory I have of him, and bam. Today it was watermelon.
Yeah. :( Did she have any time to prepare herself, or was your dad's death a sudden thing?
Like, my dad's been sick for years, so my mom has made peace with the fact that he will die, as well as she can, already. So have I, better than she has. I didn't have time to do that with my grandpa though, he got sick in February and I just was holding onto the hope that he'd beat it, and then his doctors said he was getting better and would be okay in June, and then he died a month later.
His health has been declining for the past few years. And he's been in hospitals or similar care facilities since march of this year. So, the perilous state of his health was not something we were unaware of. But on the other hand, whenever he had a trauma, and he's had many of them over the years, he had a tendency to come back from them as if nothing had happened to him. "More lives than a cat" we would say. And that's the mindset my mom admitted to having this time. But when we got the call that morning that we needed to come over as soon as possible, something told me this was it.
That's too bad. I'm sorry to hear it.
We've had close calls with my dad, but it seems the "More lives than a cat" statement applies to him too.
I'm sorry you and your family have to go through this though. :no: I hope your mom gets through it alright.
She's a high strung person (sorry mom), and feels things acutely, but is also a very strong lady, and so far that's won out overall. But she is melancholic. Luckily, we have so many loving people in our lives, and they are helping guide us through some of the things that we don't have the stamina to direct our attention towards at the moment. Whether or not having all these people around is is postponing the blow though, I don't know. I suspect the long term will be a battle of sorts.
I've done it again.
I'm not sure why I find this song so engaging, but I do. Then again, I'm not sure why I find the anime it was featured in, Kuragehime, engaging either. But damned if I don't.