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Date Posted: 00:10:33 07/21/02 Sun
In reply to:
Bill Nelson
's message, "Yup, been there" on 15:16:43 06/20/02 Thu
Thank you both for sharing your feelings and experiences. I found out my dad had lung cancer in late December 2001, and he died on April 28, 2002. During all this, I had just begun my first teaching job after finishing my degree in mid-December. It was pretty rough. That's why I haven't really checked this board. Things got bad really fast, and I haven't had much time to really process it.
Anyway, I'll try to be around here more often and perhaps share more of what really went on when I get the time and the energy. I try to let myself go through this at my own pace. Often, I find that I don't really live with the reality that he has actually died. Sometimes, something will happen that sort of shocks me back into the realization that I can never see him again--at least not the way I did. I have beliefs about the afterlife, but that doesn't make it much easier to deal with the here and now.
All that said, life goes on, and I am feeling somewhat better than I did about a week afterward. I have had health problems, which is not like me at all.
Well, I said I wouldn't get too much into it right now, so I won't. But I hope you guys are still around and will share more of your thoughts and feelings about all this.
I am a musician, and I wrote and am recording an entire album of songs based on the events surrounding my dad's decline and death. Some of you might be interested in hearing them sometime. I plan to put them online at mp3.com when I get time.
Thanks,
Ben
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