THIS is why I talk about my mom & dad so much... I was not in town when my mother or my father passed away, which makes it even harder to accept and deal with. Mom & I really started to reconnect again as mother & son when she passed in early 2000's. Dad & I didn't quite get that far but that was another situation. I would do absolutely ANYTHING for 5 more minutes with them both to tell them in person how much I LOVE them!
@duglop I get it. I was kind of able to ease into and prepare for my father's death. Even sat with him several hours after the machines were turned off, but he had been tubed for months, so I lost so much real conversation with him...
@brainwise I got to see my mother a few months before she passed from cancer, but she wasn't the same person by that time with the morphine drip... but never got to even say I miss you or I love you to my father before he suddenly passed from dementia