AWM
12-06-2004, 09:29 PM
I'll preface this rant by saying the year of 2003 was the best of my life. I'll proudly admit my marriage was fantastic, I made 97,000. My kids were happy, life was awsome in EVERY way. Basically, I got my act together. I started working out again, I got all the little loose ends of my life tied up and resolved. Issues that I"d put off for years were now over. Relief.
So, 2004 came to be with even bigger goals and hopes. All seemed to be going well until March of this year. My mom had an abnormality in her neck, and biopsy's revealed it was cancer. Cancer in her lymph nodes and neck. Talk about getting punched in the stomach. She got the best care possible, surgury and radiation. After she had recovered, on a routine check up, they discovered it was back. They took more lymph nodes and more chemo and radation this time around. As I write this in December, she's still battling.
In October my aunt, my mom's sister was also diognosed with a very aggressive cancer, she too is in the battle for her life.
In June of this past year my wife's mother, an alchoholic for years got sick and died as a result of her drinking. It opened wounds between the family that have sent uncirmountable rifts in my poor wife. She is still not the same.
In the summer this year I developed a headache...one day, 2 days, constant nagging pressure....from the moment I woke up till the second I went to bed....2 weeks......3 weeks, no answers from doctors, tests negative....the headache caused me to be depresed, almost suicidal, I thought life at this point was over. After one and a half months the headaches went away...never to return.....
It's december, we're Americans, we have roofs over our heads and even little nicities like these pcs we're on. Chances are we're not hungry, and chances are someone out there loves you. So there is hope. My wife and I are having another baby, my mom feels like a million bucks, and my aunt is taking her treatments well......2005 aproaches and like life's roller coaster, I know I'm going up!
Enjoy your holidays, enjoy your families , cliche to say it, but life is precious! Don't waiste it! :cheers: Here's to 2005!
So, 2004 came to be with even bigger goals and hopes. All seemed to be going well until March of this year. My mom had an abnormality in her neck, and biopsy's revealed it was cancer. Cancer in her lymph nodes and neck. Talk about getting punched in the stomach. She got the best care possible, surgury and radiation. After she had recovered, on a routine check up, they discovered it was back. They took more lymph nodes and more chemo and radation this time around. As I write this in December, she's still battling.
In October my aunt, my mom's sister was also diognosed with a very aggressive cancer, she too is in the battle for her life.
In June of this past year my wife's mother, an alchoholic for years got sick and died as a result of her drinking. It opened wounds between the family that have sent uncirmountable rifts in my poor wife. She is still not the same.
In the summer this year I developed a headache...one day, 2 days, constant nagging pressure....from the moment I woke up till the second I went to bed....2 weeks......3 weeks, no answers from doctors, tests negative....the headache caused me to be depresed, almost suicidal, I thought life at this point was over. After one and a half months the headaches went away...never to return.....
It's december, we're Americans, we have roofs over our heads and even little nicities like these pcs we're on. Chances are we're not hungry, and chances are someone out there loves you. So there is hope. My wife and I are having another baby, my mom feels like a million bucks, and my aunt is taking her treatments well......2005 aproaches and like life's roller coaster, I know I'm going up!
Enjoy your holidays, enjoy your families , cliche to say it, but life is precious! Don't waiste it! :cheers: Here's to 2005!