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Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - Grateful11 - 06-05-2014
I guess many of you know my answer to this one. It would have to be the moment that the life support was
disconnected from our son almost 3 years ago. The loss does get easier with time but it's still always there
in the back of mind. I've come to grips with it that I'll never get over it.
Like Bill said I wouldn't wish this event on anyone. Very sorry for your loss Bill, I wasn't aware that you had lost a child.
Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - Black - 06-05-2014
mrlynn wrote:
[quote=PeterB]
http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,220141,220141#msg-220141
... I'm still not really over that one. Not sure I'll ever be.
I hadn't seen that thread. Are you now able to tell us what it was all about? I might have guessed not a data loss, but a relationship you spent 15 years pursuing.
As for the topic of this thread, I don't like questions like this, which are too broadly phrased to have much meaning. Does 'sad' mean 'upset', 'traumatized', 'despairing', 'regrettable', etc., etc.? How would I rank events in my life? Do I really want to start reviewing a list of the most troublesome? Is a little-kid kind of 'sad' to be compared with adult loss or trauma?
And questions like this seem gratuitous, encouraging revelation for entertainment, or novelty. Better someplace like Facebook, methinks. I usually don't participate, but PeterB's post prompted my curiosity.
/Mr Lynn I never saw that one either.
Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - cbelt3 - 06-05-2014
GeneL wrote:
If I don't wake up from my surgery that's scheduled on the 12th.
I'm really terrified...
We're here for you, GeneL.... You'll be fine... we just KNOW it !!!!
Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - Kraniac - 06-05-2014
The day I ate a navy blue crayola.
Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - OWC Jamie - 06-05-2014
GeneL wrote:
If I don't wake up from my surgery that's scheduled on the 12th. :ohsnap:
I'm really terrified...
You're worried about not waking up ?
You'll never know !
Now waking up and they removed the last couple of marbles you weren't exploiting anyway, that's something to fear !
Oh wait, you still won't know, how about
you wake up and you (also) got the gender change surgery by mistake and the doctors are fondling their masterpiece.
and you like it !
Happysurgery.
Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - DavidS - 06-05-2014
The night after my daughter was born. What should have been the most wonderful day of my life became the most terrifying. She was emergently rushed to the nearby Children's Hospital's Neonatal ICU a few hours after being born with unexpected birth defects.
My wife was recovering from her c-section, unable to hold her baby girl. I was trying to be both places at once and hold it together while I was falling apart on the inside. We didn't know what was wrong or if she would survive. 13 years and 10 days later, I still remember the nightmare I had that night.
Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - maco - 06-05-2014
When my wife of 27-1/2 years (she was my best friend for 37 years), passed away quite unexpectedly. In 9 more days it will have been two years. Fortunately, things do get better.
Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - Black - 06-05-2014
I have a vague memory of a teacher trying to use whatever literature we were studying at the time to make the point that we (humans) fear insanity more than we fear death.
I'm not convinced, but it certainly makes good food for thought.
billb wrote:
[quote=GeneL]
If I don't wake up from my surgery that's scheduled on the 12th. :ohsnap:
I'm really terrified...
You're worried about not waking up ?
You'll never know !
Now waking up and they removed the last couple of marbles you weren't exploiting anyway, that's something to fear !
Oh wait, you still won't know, how about
you wake up and you (also) got the gender change surgery by mistake and the doctors are fondling their masterpiece.
and you like it !
Happysurgery.
Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - iamrfixit - 06-05-2014
Just a few days before Thanksgiving in 2001, we found out our normal, healthy 9 year old middle son had a terminal illness. A neuro-muscular disorder that would eventually rob him of almost every physical skill and also reduce his life expectancy to his early 20's. He is 23 and has been in a wheelchair since he was 12. He is doing well, has a team of doctors that monitor and treat his many symptoms on a yearly basis but no cure in sight.
It has been difficult to watch an active, seemingly healthy boy who other than having mild clumsiness seemed completely normal; reduced to a wheelchair. No longer even able to even play video games due to fatigue in his hands. He has a positive outlook and continues to try to do more than his body will allow him every day. He works as an office assistant about 15 hrs a week and enjoys movies, TV and making people laugh. He went through some dark times, he was not alone as I was with him but we pulled through, his mom is so much stronger than me on this type of thing.
He requires a great deal of care and needs help for most everyday tasks. He is very smart and memorizes football and baseball stats to the point it is unbelievable, not just current players but even players from decades before he was born. He would have given anything for his chance on the field.
Re: what was the saddest moment in your life - mrlynn - 06-06-2014
Of all the unhappy tales related here, iammrfixit's may be the toughest. It's not a 'moment'; it's years. It makes me wonder why, having been spared the fate of this fine young man, I have not made better use of my time. He may be a lesson for all of us.
/Mr Lynn