As my dad says. Life is hard.

sorry to hear CDSmith, i've had my share of sad times this year...

i lost my mom to cancer at age 51 and had a massive injury this spring that required surgery which left me 6 weeks without walking or driving. I'm not sure how my leg will heal yet...wish me luck, i'm just learning how to walk again...

thanks for giving us the opportunity to talk about it a little bit, it's part of the healing process.

I just lost a cousin to Cancer 2 weeks ago.

RIP Viv.

I'm going through a divorce, spending thousands in legal fees, and having custody battles...

My Grandmother passed away Wednesday. Everyone expected it to happen but, your never prepaired for it.....:(

been there...hang in there, you will survive. After the dust clears it will dawn on you "Somebody has done the worst thing possible to me and I am still here".
It gets better, much better :)

Were you able to make it to your mom's funeral?

For me, one of the toughtest things I had to face was not being able to be at my aunt's service. There were things going on here that prevented me from making the 5 hour trip down there. I'll have to live with that for the rest of my life.

Good luck with your leg and learning to walk again. :thumbsup

My ass has been a little bit on the sick side the last few days and so my office smells like hot, wet, sick ass. Does that count?

A month ago I was getting ready to kill myself... I moved out of my house, threw out most of my stuff, smashed up my furniture and put it in a rubbish skip, and started living out of the boot of my car. I'd even gone as far as ringing up a local gas supplier to get prices on a tank of carbon monoxide - I was planning on driving somewhere scenic and gassing myself in my car. It was a really dark place... Then I saw this movie called "The Secret" and it turned me around, and made me realise that my shitty life was no-one's fault except my own, and I had to take responsibility. Now I am back at work like a motherfucker and slowly but surely digging my way out of the hole.

No one around me really had any idea and they would have been totally shocked if I'd actually done myself. It just goes to show that you never know what's really going on in other people's lives...

pics?

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yeah i made it thankfully, how come you couldn't make it to your aunt's? whatever the reason, keep in mind that the funeral is mostly to help the living, as far as your aunt is concerned, she knows she's in your thoughts and that you paid your respects wherever you were.

i sorta think that in a way cancer was a little better than a sudden accident might have been. It helped to know what was going to happen a couple of years ahead of time (they were right on too, they predicted 24 months and she lived 24.5) and it allowed me to visit her a lot while I still could. knowing is weird though, it's so crazy to have a dr put a future "time of death" on a person....

my condolences CDSsmith

I have been thru hell for 4 yrs, not going into too much detail about it, had a messy break up, the idiot turned violent , towards me, smashed my stuff up, followed me, harrassed me , I had a break down,

i have a little boy to take care off, wasnt coping very well, but things do get better , and you do get through things, even though at the time you dont know how you will get thru things, but you do, so now I am ready to start my new life when I emigrate...........

Coming to Canada? :Graucho


It's a shame about your ex. I hear too many stories these days about idiot ex's turning violent, stalking their women, beating the crap out of them, etc. The most pitiful and pathetic thing about guys like that is the fact that inside they are little insecure boys who can't control their anger or their need for control.

stay strong ..

Not a great year so far in the personal family side of things.