(06-09-2024, 12:41 PM)Jaguarmeister Wrote:

(06-09-2024, 11:59 AM)WingerDinger Wrote: I'm so sorry that happened, man.. There's literally no words of comfort that anyone can tell you to help you in that situation. That's a life changer.. The only advice that I can give, is that it gets easier.

I lost my brother a handful of years ago as well, he was 28 and stationed in Grand Forks AFB.. He developed a blood clot from a surgery and it just took him. My only comfort was that I was told that he went quickly. Got his folded flag in our glass hutch, next to the ashes of my mom & dad that passed a few years later. 

It gets easier.. Just know you're not alone and I'm always willing to lend an ear.

Thanks.  I'm good now.  Tearing up might not have been the best expression.  Just my eyes getting a little moist is all.  Time does heal most wounds, but sudden losses like these do leave scars.

My mom's parents were gone before I was born, but I watched the only grand parents I knew (my dad's parents) fade away with dementia at the end.  Quite a different experience.  I didn't cry at all when they died, because mentally they were each already gone years before.

Death has a strange way of desensitizing you.. But it doesn't mean we're still not sad about it. As long as we have an anchor in our lives to help keep us all grounded before we decide to float off into that land of crazy.. Been there, almost claimed me.

Even had someone from this message board talk me out of a few trees and off a cliff lolol..

(And I'll never forget it.. You know who you are!!)

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