The Worst Feelings Ever, According to People’s Experiences

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Road to Recovery

Head on while riding a motorcycle on the way to work. Drunk made the wrong turn onto an exit ramp. I took the roof of his car almost completely off. Three months in the hospital, multiple surgeries, and three more months of physical therapy to walk again under my own steam. Use a cane, can almost forecast the weather by what hurts. Both legs, hips, back, left shoulder. Hurt all the time. Sleeping is my only release from the pain. Just glad to still be here. I love my wife & two sons.

Then, my father-in-law (stroke) passed suddenly, then in rapid-fire order; my mother-in-law (stroke), my dad (heart failure), my younger brother (was in a coma for 30 some years- respiratory failure), my eldest sister-in-law (cancer), and then my mom (massive abdominal infection-36 hrs start to death).

Just kind of numb to folks dying around me right now. Been through the stages of grief, but just don’t have any more care to give.