re: Dealing with death of a parent

Took quite a while to get over the sadness and constant feeling of loss after losing my mother to cancer. She was an amazing woman that I appreciated greatly, but after she's gone I can see I never appreciated her enough. She fought hard for almost two years and looked great for most of that time with an amazing, infectious positive attitude, but at the end she deteriorated quickly. Even in death she was graceful and appreciative to those who were helping her.

That was just over a year ago, followed shortly thereafter by separation from my alcoholic ex-wife and a divorce that was just finalized. That put me in a bad place for a while, but I'm German and we love misery anyway. I'll admit I still got a little teary-eyed just now typing that about my mother, but I tend to remember the beautiful and wonderful things about her now, and I'm not sad about her very often.