A quick introduction, I have been struggling with work for several years, since 06 I have had 2 repossesions of mine and the wife's car, lost our home and basically my life savings just trying to hang on waiting for a change in the economy.
Since then we have been slowly rebuilding, I immediately bought the wife an older suburban, isn't much but I paid cash for it and with 3 kids at the time something larger was needed(we now have 4 kids). I had always liked our old neighbors 73 dart sport and ended up buying it for 500, it has sat for 10-12 years and needs a bit of everything but it's mine. Managed to buy another house with a loan from a credit union we belong to and although things have been ridiculously tight, we are managing, work is slowly picking up and I thought things were getting better....
My father was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy a few months ago which was hard to cope with on it's own as they have no cure for it. He kept having dizzy spells, falling a lot and one day he couldn't speak so naturally back to the hospital. After scans and MRIs they found he has brain cancer on the left side, where it's located they can not remove it, gave him 2 months to live.
It really puts things in perspective when you or someone you love has a terminal illness, for years I have been concentrated on trying to rebuild my families financial lives and not spending much time with my parents. I tell you, I was wrong. If you have your parents with you still give them a call or maybe just ride over and see them. The old saying your not promised a tomorrow rings ever so clearly to me right now I've missed time with my family and am still struggling financially... I am not saying don't work to better yourself monetary wise but damn, don't neglect what's really important, that's family.
I would just like to ask that when some of you do your prayers that maybe you could throw an extra one my father's way, we could sure use all the help we can get.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.
Martin
Since then we have been slowly rebuilding, I immediately bought the wife an older suburban, isn't much but I paid cash for it and with 3 kids at the time something larger was needed(we now have 4 kids). I had always liked our old neighbors 73 dart sport and ended up buying it for 500, it has sat for 10-12 years and needs a bit of everything but it's mine. Managed to buy another house with a loan from a credit union we belong to and although things have been ridiculously tight, we are managing, work is slowly picking up and I thought things were getting better....
My father was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy a few months ago which was hard to cope with on it's own as they have no cure for it. He kept having dizzy spells, falling a lot and one day he couldn't speak so naturally back to the hospital. After scans and MRIs they found he has brain cancer on the left side, where it's located they can not remove it, gave him 2 months to live.
It really puts things in perspective when you or someone you love has a terminal illness, for years I have been concentrated on trying to rebuild my families financial lives and not spending much time with my parents. I tell you, I was wrong. If you have your parents with you still give them a call or maybe just ride over and see them. The old saying your not promised a tomorrow rings ever so clearly to me right now I've missed time with my family and am still struggling financially... I am not saying don't work to better yourself monetary wise but damn, don't neglect what's really important, that's family.
I would just like to ask that when some of you do your prayers that maybe you could throw an extra one my father's way, we could sure use all the help we can get.
Thanks for taking the time to read my post.
Martin
