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June 3
A year ago today I was in a hospital in Florida, waiting for my father to die of cancer. At 8:30pm CST, he finally did.
It's funny how this date just flits in and out of my mind; how I'll suddenly obsess about it one minute ("omg, it's been five months since his death") and the next I'll completely forget it all together. Things are still a mess with his estate. His crazy, devious ex-wife still wants everything, and his fiancee' is no longer speaking to me because she thinks I fucked her over on a real estate deal that SHE originally purchased (long story--basically, she's crazy and devious, too). Mr. Foxx has learned a shitload about family law out of this debacle, and let me just say that having your husband as the attorney for your father's estate is the greatest thing in the world. He is a PIT BULL when it comes to protecting my inheritance and getting what's fair.
I don't like to think about Florida. I will never go back to Tampa Bay for as long as I live. I will, however, think fondly on the night my family went out to a lovely little restaurant in a small, converted house and ate great food and drank good wine and remembered all the good things about my dad and didn't discuss the fact that at that very moment, the hospital was taking him off dialysis and moving him into hospice care. If anything, my dad's passing brought me closer to my aunt and uncle, and made me realize how very, very much my husband loves me.
There's no need to comment to this; I've been blessed in the past with many kind words from my flist. I just wanted to get something out to mark this day. I was never close to my dad and we had a very strained relationship, to say the least. But I do miss him, in some form or another, every day.
It's funny how this date just flits in and out of my mind; how I'll suddenly obsess about it one minute ("omg, it's been five months since his death") and the next I'll completely forget it all together. Things are still a mess with his estate. His crazy, devious ex-wife still wants everything, and his fiancee' is no longer speaking to me because she thinks I fucked her over on a real estate deal that SHE originally purchased (long story--basically, she's crazy and devious, too). Mr. Foxx has learned a shitload about family law out of this debacle, and let me just say that having your husband as the attorney for your father's estate is the greatest thing in the world. He is a PIT BULL when it comes to protecting my inheritance and getting what's fair.
I don't like to think about Florida. I will never go back to Tampa Bay for as long as I live. I will, however, think fondly on the night my family went out to a lovely little restaurant in a small, converted house and ate great food and drank good wine and remembered all the good things about my dad and didn't discuss the fact that at that very moment, the hospital was taking him off dialysis and moving him into hospice care. If anything, my dad's passing brought me closer to my aunt and uncle, and made me realize how very, very much my husband loves me.
There's no need to comment to this; I've been blessed in the past with many kind words from my flist. I just wanted to get something out to mark this day. I was never close to my dad and we had a very strained relationship, to say the least. But I do miss him, in some form or another, every day.
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My mother passed away from lung cancer three years ago, and I am so much closer with my sister and her kids now. Good does come out of tragedy. I am so sorry for your loss, hon <3
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anniversaries are such powerful things. awknowledging and commemorating them is so important ♥
::lifts glass with
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If there's ever a need, I'm always here for you.
♥
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My love to you, and empathy.
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