Ronni
Well-known Member
- Location
- Nashville TN
Since right before Christmas through till yesterday I have lost or been witness to the family loss of six people near and dear to me.
Three of them were Nar-anon family members who lost children to
Overdoses. We’ve been supportive of eah other and our struggles since 2012.
Two of them were very dear friends who lost elderly and aging parents, and as of yesterday the latest is my son-in-law who lost his stepdad who has been his stepdad since he was tiny.
I’m really struggling you guys. It has felt like a sledge hammer onslaught that just DOES NOT STOP.
The Naranon families who’ve lost kids to OD’s hits so close to home because that could just so easily been my addict son, in recovery now 6+ years
The dear friends who’ve lost aging parents is triggering, bringing to mind my struggles with my own parents before and after they passed. And my son in law who lost his Step Dad (who was a friend to me because the step and in-law families remained close) reminds me so much of the struggles my kids will have with my own passing whenever that happens.
This is difficult. I’ve been barely able to comprehend one loss before I get hit upside the head with another.
It’s been a rough month.
This is Jimmy, my son in law’s step dad
Jimmy was a character.
It shocks me that he's gone, because even though he was sick, I just somehow thought he was bulletproof!
This is the only photo I have of us together. He took it, and then with much delight and a certain sense of devilish accomplishment, he posted it to facebook. He warned me he was going to, with a chuckle and that mischievous sparkle in his eye that, for me, was his most remembered and endearing feature.
Three of them were Nar-anon family members who lost children to
Overdoses. We’ve been supportive of eah other and our struggles since 2012.
Two of them were very dear friends who lost elderly and aging parents, and as of yesterday the latest is my son-in-law who lost his stepdad who has been his stepdad since he was tiny.
I’m really struggling you guys. It has felt like a sledge hammer onslaught that just DOES NOT STOP.
The Naranon families who’ve lost kids to OD’s hits so close to home because that could just so easily been my addict son, in recovery now 6+ years
The dear friends who’ve lost aging parents is triggering, bringing to mind my struggles with my own parents before and after they passed. And my son in law who lost his Step Dad (who was a friend to me because the step and in-law families remained close) reminds me so much of the struggles my kids will have with my own passing whenever that happens.
This is difficult. I’ve been barely able to comprehend one loss before I get hit upside the head with another.
It’s been a rough month.
This is Jimmy, my son in law’s step dad
Jimmy was a character.
It shocks me that he's gone, because even though he was sick, I just somehow thought he was bulletproof! This is the only photo I have of us together. He took it, and then with much delight and a certain sense of devilish accomplishment, he posted it to facebook. He warned me he was going to, with a chuckle and that mischievous sparkle in his eye that, for me, was his most remembered and endearing feature.
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