Comments on: I Pretty Much Hate Thanksgiving http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/2009/11/i-pretty-much-hate-thanksgiving/ The Health & Wellness Source You've Been Searching For Wed, 28 Dec 2011 04:51:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Karen http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/2009/11/i-pretty-much-hate-thanksgiving/comment-page-1/#comment-6393 Karen Sat, 26 Nov 2011 16:57:15 +0000 http://www.healthyalterego.com/?p=1312#comment-6393 I used to love Thanksgiving.... To me it represented a time for families to get together and enjoy each other. Always had warm thoughts and memories. Thanksgiving meant Christmas was coming soon. Singing Christmas songs by the fire or in the car on the way to see Christmas lights. Even shopping although hectic had its own special kind of happiness with all the lights and warmth. Dad passed away almost 48 hours ago... For a few days watched his breathing change and slow.... I already knew at the beginning of the week that he would pass on Thanksgiving... Not sure how I knew exactly but I just knew when we moved him to a Hospice room in the hospital that it would be on that day. My mother, sister, our husbands and my grandmother were all there when he took that last breathe. I made this official statement...... "He is celebrating in heaven. I am thankful that his pain and suffering has ended. I am thankful he is now reunited with his dad and grandfather in heaven." Official Statement...... lol.... after all gotta keep up appearances right lol.... Everything is to be handled maturely and with a glad heart. I will say the above instead of the truth which is.... today sux.... Thanksgiving sux.... Thanks for nothing.... lol Black Friday has a new meaning.... picking out a black casket and ordering flowers... yep it is black. Very hard to hear the nurses out in the hall wishing each other Happy Thanksgiving and the texts I received from people with happy greetings.... I feel like I have no filter. "Happy Thanksgiving!" someone says to me that afternoon.... "Yea just watched my dad die, Happy Thanksgiving to you" I didnt really reply with that but I wanted to lol. I did reply to one text that way, felt bad about it later but like I said I feel like I have no filter at all. Not even sure what to do with myself... my days have been full of staying with dad and trying to make plans for the best ways to care for him etc... Now I am mad... ticked off... He received a heart transplant 5 years ago... went thru so much... and this is how it ends? He just turned 60 this year and I find myself resentful of all the older 90s something people I meet. How horrible is that. My dads grandmother who is 100 this year used to say she was going to die all the time.... dad would always say she would probably outlive him.... well he was right. I keep playing old voicemails that he had left me.... over and over... Thanksgiving Sux Club...... I hate Thanksgiving :`( I used to love Thanksgiving…. To me it represented a time for families to get together and enjoy each other. Always had warm thoughts and memories. Thanksgiving meant Christmas was coming soon. Singing Christmas songs by the fire or in the car on the way to see Christmas lights. Even shopping although hectic had its own special kind of happiness with all the lights and warmth.

Dad passed away almost 48 hours ago… For a few days watched his breathing change and slow…. I already knew at the beginning of the week that he would pass on Thanksgiving… Not sure how I knew exactly but I just knew when we moved him to a Hospice room in the hospital that it would be on that day. My mother, sister, our husbands and my grandmother were all there when he took that last breathe. I made this official statement……

“He is celebrating in heaven. I am thankful that his pain and suffering has ended. I am thankful he is now reunited with his dad and grandfather in heaven.”

Official Statement…… lol…. after all gotta keep up appearances right lol…. Everything is to be handled maturely and with a glad heart.

I will say the above instead of the truth which is…. today sux…. Thanksgiving sux…. Thanks for nothing…. lol

Black Friday has a new meaning…. picking out a black casket and ordering flowers… yep it is black.

Very hard to hear the nurses out in the hall wishing each other Happy Thanksgiving and the texts I received from people with happy greetings…. I feel like I have no filter. “Happy Thanksgiving!” someone says to me that afternoon…. “Yea just watched my dad die, Happy Thanksgiving to you” I didnt really reply with that but I wanted to lol. I did reply to one text that way, felt bad about it later but like I said I feel like I have no filter at all. Not even sure what to do with myself… my days have been full of staying with dad and trying to make plans for the best ways to care for him etc…

Now I am mad… ticked off… He received a heart transplant 5 years ago… went thru so much… and this is how it ends? He just turned 60 this year and I find myself resentful of all the older 90s something people I meet. How horrible is that. My dads grandmother who is 100 this year used to say she was going to die all the time…. dad would always say she would probably outlive him…. well he was right. I keep playing old voicemails that he had left me…. over and over…

Thanksgiving Sux Club…… I hate Thanksgiving :`(

]]> By: Jo Wehage : Head Operations Ego http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/2009/11/i-pretty-much-hate-thanksgiving/comment-page-1/#comment-6382 Jo Wehage : Head Operations Ego Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:55:31 +0000 http://www.healthyalterego.com/?p=1312#comment-6382 I'll be thinking of you today, Jodi. I know it's not easy. Hang in there. I’ll be thinking of you today, Jodi. I know it’s not easy. Hang in there.

]]> By: Jodi http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/2009/11/i-pretty-much-hate-thanksgiving/comment-page-1/#comment-6379 Jodi Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:48:40 +0000 http://www.healthyalterego.com/?p=1312#comment-6379 I too am part of the death on thanksgiving club. My father past 3 years ago. I never really enjoyed the holiday before that now it is only worse. I come from divorced family and Thanksgiving was never a celebrated holiday. I think it has become a hallmark holiday and I do not fit the criteria. On the outside yes but on the inside no. The depression is almost unbareable. I too am part of the death on thanksgiving club. My father past 3 years ago. I never really enjoyed the holiday before that now it is only worse. I come from divorced family and Thanksgiving was never a celebrated holiday. I think it has become a hallmark holiday and I do not fit the criteria. On the outside yes but on the inside no. The depression is almost unbareable.

]]> By: Laura http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/2009/11/i-pretty-much-hate-thanksgiving/comment-page-1/#comment-3679 Laura Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:46:30 +0000 http://www.healthyalterego.com/?p=1312#comment-3679 Wow. Not to be harsh here but I want to call you out on this Jennifer. The author here has decided to use this format to express her grief and you just "one-upped" her. Just because you lost your mother at 11 doesn't mean that your loss is any greater. Wow. Not to be harsh here but I want to call you out on this Jennifer. The author here has decided to use this format to express her grief and you just “one-upped” her. Just because you lost your mother at 11 doesn’t mean that your loss is any greater.

]]> By: Tami Boehmer http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/2009/11/i-pretty-much-hate-thanksgiving/comment-page-1/#comment-862 Tami Boehmer Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:27:34 +0000 http://www.healthyalterego.com/?p=1312#comment-862 I just read this, Jo. I'm so sorry for your sad Thanksgiving memories and for the loss of your mother. I know you will create some happy memories in the future. Now I know why you are such a caring and compassionate person. Loss and pain makes us that way. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. I just read this, Jo. I’m so sorry for your sad Thanksgiving memories and for the loss of your mother. I know you will create some happy memories in the future. Now I know why you are such a caring and compassionate person. Loss and pain makes us that way. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.

]]> By: Monroig Gratiana http://www.healthyalterego.com/index.php/2009/11/i-pretty-much-hate-thanksgiving/comment-page-1/#comment-852 Monroig Gratiana Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:34:02 +0000 http://www.healthyalterego.com/?p=1312#comment-852 Hey everyone, it's Thanksgiving Day! I'm happy with my extra day off, and I am planning to make something fun that'll probably involve a moto trip and seeing something new in Rome I haven't seen yet. You write something new at Thanksgiving? Hey everyone, it’s Thanksgiving Day! I’m happy with my extra day off, and I am planning to make something fun that’ll probably involve a moto trip and seeing something new in Rome I haven’t seen yet.
You write something new at Thanksgiving?

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