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What was your worst Christmas?
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Stay out of sunlight, don't go near water, and definitely don't eat after midnight.
Yep, but no mixers, and no lemon with your tequila.But I can still drink alcohol, right?
Aww, that's a quote from some movie bartelby, isn't it? I just can't remember which one, though something in my brain says gremlins.
Aww, that's a quote from some movie bartelby, isn't it? I just can't remember which one, though something in my brain says gremlins.
Your brain is correct!!
oh my god. that is soo sad. I feel really bad for you.
my parents just split up but I couldn't imagine that.About four years ago found out that my brother and law got colon cancer which was pretty bad. He had been fighting it for four years now and it looks like he might not win the fight. I drove 12 hours straight to help my sister out with her kids and with her husband. Cancer has plagued my sister's family pretty bad. My nephew is thirteen and has lived with cancer pretty much his whole life. Had a liver transplant when he was one year old. I'm just glad I have been able to spend what time I can with them. During the holidays I thank God for all I have and how fortunate I really am. Got a few buds that got laid off from their jobs last month. Just kind of puts things in perspective.
The one where I got laid up with double pneumonia while home from college on winter break. My mom tried the tough love approach and dragged me out of the house a few times, believing I was just malingering.
I drove back to school and went to a doctor down there who took some lovely chest x-rays and put me on some strong antibiotics for a while. Took me almost a year to get all the crud out of my lungs.
Meanwhile, my mom caught the same strain I had and it ended up putting her in the hospital! We can laugh about it now, at least.
I drove back to school and went to a doctor down there who took some lovely chest x-rays and put me on some strong antibiotics for a while. Took me almost a year to get all the crud out of my lungs.
Meanwhile, my mom caught the same strain I had and it ended up putting her in the hospital! We can laugh about it now, at least.
oh my god. that is soo sad. I feel really bad for you.
At first it was, and growing up I could never understand my mother. But now, I can only see it was a good thing. I was very lucky that I had an amazing sister with me throughout my childhood. I was also so very lucky that the two people ( and husband and wife) who looked after the children's home I grew up in were two of the greatest people ever to walk this planet.
To me, reading stories about close family dying around Christmas or people who were told they had cancer is much more heart breaking. I had an fantastic adventure as a kid and really wouldn't change it for anything.
So sorry to hear about your parents, but I couldn't and wouldn't tell you how to handle it, everyone who has been in that situation has to work that out for them self.
No matter what happens in life, Christmas is a fantastic time of year. To me, it does not matter if you have lots or little you should try and enjoy it.
I had just been in a car accident and wasn't going to school because I had busted out four teeth and I had a huge gash in my head. I had a ton of homework from school that I was avoiding. I got awful presents (seriously, socks, an alarm clock, and terrible Grandma-style sweaters). And to top it all off, it was an enormous blizzard in Nebraska. And I stopped going to church that year so my whole family was pissed with me.
I've never paused so long after a post to take in what I just read....
My worst Christmas was Christmas 2004. On December 22 my family went to my sister's Christmas Carol Concert for her school and my grandparents came along. I sat next to my grandpaw not knowing that'd be the last time I'd talk to him. Later that night my mom told me that he had a heart attack and was brought to the hospital. He survived the heart attack (he was 81, and had a triple bipass 12 yrs earlier), but the weeks that followed were absolutely terrible. He stayed in ICU on a ventilator for Christmas. My entire family and extended family did our usual Christmas rituals and pretended to ignore the dark cloud above us. We just tried our best to keep our spirits up. He had surgery on New Years but because his heart didn't start back up right away he suffered kidney damage.
He and my grandmother agreed to remove the ventilator and he died on the night of January 8 with his children next to him. I remember those times just staring at the walls in gaze not knowing what to do or think. I was at peace with him remembering the great times he had, and he always told my cousins and I that he wasn't afraid to die and knew the day would soon come. His bipass was only supposed to be effective for 7 years.
Even though it was a horrible Christmas, it snowed for the first time in 12 years, we live in Louisiana so it was a big deal.
Same for me haha. Almost exactly the same except I was about 9 or 10
Yea... definitely the worst christmas I've had
My cousins always do something mischievous like destroy our pool table or torture our new puppy in 1996, but it's not such a big deal anymore because they've grown up a bit.
On Christmas Eve 2003, I had the stomach flu for 24 hours and had to stay upstairs and watch TV. That wasn't fun.
My dad had prostate cancer in December 2004, and since his operation was a few weeks prior to that, a lot of our usual rituals were disturbed by that.
My dad is sick again this year, only with colon cancer, but it's benign, so he should be fine. He has his operation next week.
On Christmas Eve 2003, I had the stomach flu for 24 hours and had to stay upstairs and watch TV. That wasn't fun.
My dad had prostate cancer in December 2004, and since his operation was a few weeks prior to that, a lot of our usual rituals were disturbed by that.
My dad is sick again this year, only with colon cancer, but it's benign, so he should be fine. He has his operation next week.
I'm guessing it's gonna be this one. We're on a pretty tight budget lately, and my grandfather has basically gone blind so he won't be coming.
Sounds about the same time that I had something similar - only it lasted a good 2 to 3 days. Vomiting (and the other stuff)
, non-stop, until all that was left to come up was bile. I'd never thrown up so many times in my entire life as I did during those 2-3 days.umm okay, TMI, sorry!
Christmas day 1994, flying home to attend my mother's funeral (she had died suddenly of a stroke on Christmas Eve). Worst Christmas Ever.
Mine was Christmas 2003. My NG unit got activated and we were training for deployment to Iraq. They let us have like 3 days for Christmas and gave us a bus ride home to see our families and then back to the training center again.
Sounds about the same time that I had something similar - only it lasted a good 2 to 3 days. Vomiting (and the other stuff)
umm okay, TMI, sorry!
No, I remember my sisters coming upstairs to give me a cup of that good punch my mom makes every year only to be expelled five minutes later in the bathroom. I couldn't eat or drink anything that night, which sucked.
