Rate your current mental health level out of 10

[Titan2]

Originally Posted by topfiverecords

If you shave around it it looks way bigger.

You mean like a Friar Tuck?

[fotze2]

I am taking far too much pleasure in my old company imploding with all the things I said that got me on the crap list.

- Boss on a performance plan..
- Facility guy who was the best I ever worked with gave his notice this week.
- The young engineer who is a tall strapping nordic guy just gave notice and he was the golden boy for good reason, brilliantly smart and charisma for days.

I should not be this happy about this but I am. The schadenfreude is immeasurable.

I am dying to phone the HR person and 'check-up'.

[dissentowner]

You know what fn sucks? Sitting by your moms bedside in ICU listening to her struggling to take her last breaths all night.

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

You know what fn sucks? Sitting by your moms bedside in ICU listening to her struggling to take her last breaths all night.

That final breathe is something else. You just know. When my mom did maid she was making jokes to the bitter end. After getting pumped full of goo. Then the room files out and just your dad left there with a corpse, he cries for the first time i had ever seen and says 'I wanna get out of here, there is a desd body in here'. I'm thinking the exact same thing and we left. Last time I ever saw her.

She chose her end, not cancer. I think that's kinda cool, I guess.

Just know, you will never get over it, just accept it and embrace it. She desrves your pain.

Be well buds.

[Sr. Mints]

My uncle had a stroke on Valentine’s Day and I went up to see him. He wasn’t looking good, but the family was hoping he’d spring back. He lived on a farm by himself; they estimate he was found 10 hours after the stroke--as soon as I heard that, I knew it was over. The doctor kept coming in and gently steering the family toward comfort care, and nobody wanted to hear it. I can’t say I blame them. He died a few days later.

His funeral was today and while sitting there watching the photo montage, the future came into alarming focus: I’m going to be going to a lot of funerals in the next few years. It’s been weighing heavily on me all day. My mom’s had lots of health problems, and I’m just not ready for her to die any time soon. Nobody prepares you for this.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Sr. Mints

I’m going to be going to a lot of funerals in the next few years. It’s been weighing heavily on me all day. My mom’s had lots of health problems, and I’m just not ready for her to die any time soon. Nobody prepares you for this.

I'm only 42 and I've lost eight people in the last three years. Only one was an appropriate age to die. All of them were more than friends.

[dissentowner]

She passed at 11am this morning. I'm not taking it well.

[Otto-matic]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

She passed at 11am this morning. I'm not taking it well.

Ah man I'm so sorry to hear that, losing a parent is a bizarre feeling that puts you in some really dark places mentally.

[TheIronMaiden]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

She passed at 11am this morning. I'm not taking it well.

My condolences.

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

She passed at 11am this morning. I'm not taking it well.

Sorry to hear this Diss, condolences!

[fotze2]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

She passed at 11am this morning. I'm not taking it well.

You aren't meant to take it well. Embrace it. I'm gonna pm my phone. Ypu probbwon't use it but its there.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by Titan2

You mean like a Friar Tuck?

There are so many jokes here that could offend an immensely broad spectrum of people I dont even know where to begin.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

You know what fn sucks? Sitting by your moms bedside in ICU listening to her struggling to take her last breaths all night.

I did that with my father in 2000 and at home with my mother in 2021. Yes it sucks but that's the cold harsh reality of life and frankly nothing prepares you for that moment. My only advice I can give you is that your good memories of her will live on inside of you forever. Take that with you moving forward. That's what I did with both of my parents.

Sorry for your loss.