This is getting tiring - quit dying

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Last week my aunt died. It was not unexpected. She’s been on the downhill slide for the past 6 years due to Alzheimers. For the past 2 years she was completely non-communicative. My mom still would call her weekly despite the futility of it. By this past December Auntie was bedridden, being fed through IV. She had a heart attack with a DNR - which was a good thing.

That was Monday. On Wednesday, as we were packing to head out to Wisconsin my best friend called. Her father died. Like Auntie, it was not unexpected. He had been in a nursing home for over 20 years. He had been unresponsive for the past year or so. That funeral is tomorrow.

Saturday, as we were saying our goodbyes to the relatives, the phone rang. My uncle’s sister-in-law was not expected to live out the weekend. Found out this afternoon - she didn’t.

sigh

A boy TheKid knows (friend of a friend thing) died in a freak accident a week ago.

Tonight she gets a call from another friend. A girl she has been having issues with lately tried to commit suicide. She failed, but is in the ICU. It’s unknown whether she will survive.

Let’s add to the three people I knew through my workplace who died in the past two weeks to the list, too.

Do me a favor. Just hug the person you love. Call that relative you have good thoughts of, but haven’t spoken to in a few years and tell him/her you’re thinking of them. Give your critter an extra snuggle.

For some life is too long for their body to handle, for some too damn short.

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I’ll be seeing my 104 year old grandmother tomorrow anyway. I love her more than I can say, and I’ll be sure to give her an extra hug, thinking of you and yours, MissTake.

You take care of yourself as well, and come here to vent, or PM us, as needed.

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I hear you.
I can’t decide if I’m just having a really bad year, or if this is what getting old is like…until I run out of friends anyway. I promise I’ll not complain about another potluck wedding or baby shower if I can just stop needing to cook for wakes, please.
I am sorry for all your losses, MissTake. I hope your year gets better.

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We had a bad year like that a couple years ago. Uncle Howard died on New Year’s Day, my beloved grandfather died two days later, in March my uncle was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of brain cancer and died in December, my aunt spent the first half of the year drowning in lung cancer and died in April, etc., etc., etc.

My dad said it was because I didn’t eat the traditional New Year’s collards.

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Death is preferable to collards. (Okay, I’m kidding.)

I’m in my 40s and I’ve had 5 of my friends, 3 close ones, diagnosed with breast cancer in the last two years. The most recent one was diagnosed in January with Stage 4 breast cancer.

We’re all too young for this!