re: Does it get easier(losing a family member)?

Not that you need anymore stories - but I lost my dad a few months after Hurricane Katrina - in which I lost all my material possessions and probably some of my sanity - losing dad was worse

The relationship with my dad wasn’t perfect, but I loved him a lot - he had moved away when I was younger and called every once in a while

The last phone call - which was October after Katrina - he said he wanted to come home - and I said there wasn’t any home to come to - and he said home is wherever you are - so I tried my damnedest to find a place so he could move with my husband and I - my brother and sister had a place but they didn’t want him - then that stupid dreaded phone call came

It was too much for one year - I’m sure I didn’t get over it until way later - if I ever really did - he never met his grandkids but I know he looks out for them