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What was your last conversation with a loved one?
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:09 pm
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:09 pm
A few years ago, When I was in HS, my dad got a new job and I decided to live with my grandparents to not move for the end of JR and SR years. I had always been close with them and living with them cemented my grandfather in particular as a second father/hero figure.
I live on the other side of the country now and only make it in for holidays (not Christmas this year). Came in for thanksgiving and my grandfather, 84, has had an unexpected and sharp decline and I likely won't be able to make a trip
So my last conversation with him was about Georgetown basketball (his alma mater and former dean of a school there/professor). I mean we always talk about it but the last conversation was fuggin college basketball
Anyone else have worse experiences to make me feel like I didn't squander potentially my last face to face time with him?
I live on the other side of the country now and only make it in for holidays (not Christmas this year). Came in for thanksgiving and my grandfather, 84, has had an unexpected and sharp decline and I likely won't be able to make a trip
So my last conversation with him was about Georgetown basketball (his alma mater and former dean of a school there/professor). I mean we always talk about it but the last conversation was fuggin college basketball
Anyone else have worse experiences to make me feel like I didn't squander potentially my last face to face time with him?
This post was edited on 11/28/14 at 4:12 pm
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Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:12 pm to GenesChin
I just told my wife I loved her.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:12 pm to GenesChin
Go see him man, I'd give anything to be able to have a "real" last conversation. I'm serious, don't let anything stop you from seeing him before he passes.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:13 pm to GenesChin
I've heard they have these devices called phones that might help in this situation.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:13 pm to GenesChin
If he loves Georgetown, than it was a great use of a talk with him.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:15 pm to GenesChin
Don't beat yourself up over this. Anyone could die at any time. Does that mean every conversation with them has to be THE MOST PROFOUND CONVERSATION IN THE WORLD, because they might die before you talk to them again?
The world would be a bad Aaron Sorkin script.
The world would be a bad Aaron Sorkin script.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:15 pm to GenesChin
can you call him?
send him a letter or something to let him know you're thinking of him
send him a letter or something to let him know you're thinking of him
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:15 pm to GenesChin
"You can either choose drugs or me"
He overdosed and and is dead now. I will never be able to take those words back and they will haunt me for the rest of my life. One of my friends said similar words to her ex and he OD'd soon after. She is still tearing herself up over it b
Moral of the story.... A drug addict is a drug addict. IF they're counting the number of days that they have been sober, then walk away. It will be the hardest thing that you will ever do but an addict is an addict.
He overdosed and and is dead now. I will never be able to take those words back and they will haunt me for the rest of my life. One of my friends said similar words to her ex and he OD'd soon after. She is still tearing herself up over it b
Moral of the story.... A drug addict is a drug addict. IF they're counting the number of days that they have been sober, then walk away. It will be the hardest thing that you will ever do but an addict is an addict.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:16 pm to SabiDojo
Awwwww
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:17 pm to GenesChin
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Anyone else have worse experiences to make me feel like I didn't squander potentially my last face to face time with him?
When I was 8 years old I threw a fit because my Mom wouldn't let me play with some toy. She put me to bed early and I yelled at her and told her I wish I could go live with my grandparents who really loved me. That night my mom had an asthma attack and fell unconscious. She was in a coma for a week then died. So I guess you don't have the worst experience.
FYI, I did go live with my grandparents after my mom died, as it was in her will for me to live with them and not with my alcholic loser dad. So even in death she was looking out for me.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:17 pm to GenesChin
I went see my Pawpaw in the hospital when I was walking out I told him I loved him I loved him, he said "I love you too, take care of them little ones"........ that was the last words he spoke to any of his family members.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:18 pm to jmcs68
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Awwwww
Well, OP asked what was my last conversation with a loved one. That was my most recent one.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:18 pm to Kafka
We can talk on the phone but since he had a decline normally he only has time for pleasantries. Never a replacement for face to face
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:21 pm to GenesChin
My dad just called me at work to tell me that there's an article in the paper about the Alario center falling apart. 
"Okay, thanks Dad. Yeah, I'll check it out."
"Okay, thanks Dad. Yeah, I'll check it out."
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:22 pm to GenesChin
When I split from my wife I had no place to go. My best friend, a police officer, gave me a place to stay for 6 months while I saved up money to get my own place.
Once I got my place, he stopped by one day to see how I was doing.
When he was leaving I said "I don't know how to thank you." He shook my hand and said, "You just did. See ya later"
That was the last time we spoke because 3 days later he was shot and killed in the line of duty.
Saw my ex wife at her brothers funeral earlier this year.
She hugged me and said I love you. I said I love you to. She had a massive stroke and died 4 months later. That was the last time we spoke.
Once I got my place, he stopped by one day to see how I was doing.
When he was leaving I said "I don't know how to thank you." He shook my hand and said, "You just did. See ya later"
That was the last time we spoke because 3 days later he was shot and killed in the line of duty.
Saw my ex wife at her brothers funeral earlier this year.
She hugged me and said I love you. I said I love you to. She had a massive stroke and died 4 months later. That was the last time we spoke.
This post was edited on 11/28/14 at 4:25 pm
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:22 pm to GenesChin
any conversation with a grandparent is a great one. Before my dad passed I asked him what he wanted for Christmas(knowing it would be his last)
His comment was- I just want the kids and grandkids over to talk to
YOu look at the conversation and think "I wish it would have been a more meaningful conversation"
Grandfather thinks" Man what a great grandson I have- he took time out of his busy life to talk with me"
Subject matter does not matter- it is the time you allocate to talking with him that mattered.
His comment was- I just want the kids and grandkids over to talk to
YOu look at the conversation and think "I wish it would have been a more meaningful conversation"
Grandfather thinks" Man what a great grandson I have- he took time out of his busy life to talk with me"
Subject matter does not matter- it is the time you allocate to talking with him that mattered.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:23 pm to WaltTeevens
quote:no a bad aaron sorkin script (redundant) would take some recent political story and change the names, taking great care the label the villain a republican
would be a bad Aaron Sorkin script
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:23 pm to FloridaMike
Senior year of High School I got out at noon everyday. My grandfather, who was battling Alzheimer's, had to be driven for cancer treatments so I would pick him up and make a 30 minute drive with him.
The whole spring he rarely said anything coherent and most of the time had no idea who I was. The last trip we made together before he passed I pulled up to his house with him in the passenger seat ready to drop him off. Cut the engine and was about to exit the car when he said my name and the following..."thanks, you've been a damn good chauffeur."
Looked in his eyes and he was "there." He passed two weeks later but I'll never forget that last moment of a connection.
The whole spring he rarely said anything coherent and most of the time had no idea who I was. The last trip we made together before he passed I pulled up to his house with him in the passenger seat ready to drop him off. Cut the engine and was about to exit the car when he said my name and the following..."thanks, you've been a damn good chauffeur."
Looked in his eyes and he was "there." He passed two weeks later but I'll never forget that last moment of a connection.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:27 pm to GenesChin
Oh, you meant last convo ever.
A few years ago my great uncle was in the hospital with a heart issue. I told him to hang in there and he said "You can't kill old grass." He died a week or so later. He had a good sense of humor. He died at 88 and had had heart issues in the past. I think he knew what was up.
A few years ago my great uncle was in the hospital with a heart issue. I told him to hang in there and he said "You can't kill old grass." He died a week or so later. He had a good sense of humor. He died at 88 and had had heart issues in the past. I think he knew what was up.
Posted on 11/28/14 at 4:27 pm to GenesChin
Had a casual conversation about nothing important with a close friend. She died in a car crash the next morning. I kicked myself for a long time because I never told her how important she was to me. I think I've probably over adjusted and tell my loved ones that I love them almost every conversation.
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