Ministry of Pain
Footballguy
I have not stopped thinking about you, this story is so personal for me and I didn't want to write one of my lengthy postsThanks for the unbelievably kind words everybody. I truly appreciate it.
So my dad did die yesterday. The night before I visited with him before he went to hospice. My sister told me a few days before that he was hallucinating some (he thought he saw a cat walk by) but he also told my sister he didn’t know why I was mad at him. I wasn’t, at least not now, but I went in there afterwards and held his hand and told him I wasn’t mad at him. He said “will you accept my apology, I apologize” over and over and I told him I did. They moved him to hospice that night and he died 12 hours later. I told him I’d take my two sons to see him there but he was gone before my oldest even got out of school. If I knew it was that imminent I would have held him out. Oh well.
My wife is convinced our talk is what allowed him to go off. That makes me sad but I’m glad we had it and it gave him peace.
I write when I get emotional and I wrote a lot about my dad. I might post it on a Substack but not sure I’ll share it where my sister will see it. It’s not bad or anything, I dunno it just may bother her some. Maybe I’ll post it here first for a test drive before I do that.
Anyways thanks again to you all for allowing me to get this out and all the wonderful words. I do love that we have this here. I’ll be fine, it’s Christmas week and I have my family.![]()
This is about you.
-I agree 100% with your wife that your father was hanging on until he could make peace with you
Nothing but positive vibes your way Cap, you did a good thing