re: When's the last time you cried?

My dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer back in November. My kids are 7,5, and 3 and we aren’t going to tell them. They don’t know and I don’t want to jeopardize their relationship by being scared or worried about him.

I cry around 2-3x a month just thinking about losing my dad but it is therapeutic for me to let it out once in a while. I usually do it in the shower and remind myself I need to enjoy the time with him.

My dad and I are taking. My 7 and 5 year old to their first game in Tiger Stadium tonight. Going to be a memory for all of us to look back on for the rest of our lives and that thought makes me tear up, it makes me so happy and appreciative I still have a chance to do this with my dad and kids.

heading to a funeral in a couple hours, so probably today.
he was 45, wife and three children, prime of his life
his son had leukemia, beat it after 6 months but got covid in the hospital and gave it to his dad. Dad went to the hospital and died a week later

RIP Greg

About a month ago. A good friend of mine.. His wife's sister 's 6 year old girl was diagnosed with a brain tumor in April.

One day her mom picked her up from school and she was complaining about a headache that kept getting worse. She went to the doctor the next day and the doctor told them he was seeing something on an x-ray and wanted to send her to a specialist "just in case". 48 hours after picking her up from school she was at St. Judes.

One day she was just a 6 year old little girl doing what 6 year old girls do.. Two days later the doctor is telling her parents that she had 6 months at the most to live. They tried experimental treatments, was at St Judes for about a month. When they got back home, she had been given so many steroids that she didn't even look like herself. She was in and out of the hospital all summer and the last time she was in a coma then passed away.

I only been around the little girl once, but knowing her mom, and being good friends with her sister and her sister's husband.. I don't know.. Something about that happening to a 6 year old is tough.

It sounds crazy, but there are a lot of people in this world who deserves to have something like that happen to, yet it happens to a 6 year old innocent kid.

When it comes to adults dying, I can be pretty cold. I just know that at any time anything can happen and we all will die at some point, some sooner than others.. but a kid man. That has to be the absolute worst thing a parent experiences. Just thinking about it right now makes tear up.

Well, one of the side effects of PTSD is crying just doesn’t happen. It’s like having very emotion.

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Getting news about the Marines dying in Afghanistan/seeing parents literally throw babies up to service members to get them to safety.

Not sure if it was sadness or anger though.

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I was just angry over that. Save for one personal thing that happened in my life, that was the angriest I’ve been since 9/11. I nearly had a panic attack watching the planes take off and then people falling from the sky.

Last month, we were driving home from north Knoxville and there was a pop up memorial to the young man from that community who was among the marines murdered by the suicide bomber in Afghanistan.
His body hadn't been returned home yet, but the community remembered with lots of American Flags and a photo of him.
Tears came.

When Ida hit my house

Thanks. It’s been rough, but we’ll do what we gotta do.

I can’t say it enough though, if you have women in your life make sure they’re getting their annual mammograms and doing breast exams. My Mom would’ve 100% survived if she was doing that. The mammogram caught my Grandmother’s before it even became a mass (it’s a spot about the size of half her pinky finger nail).

4th grade before I kicked a classmate's arse at noon recess.

Watching my brother-in-law pass away in hospice care. My dad was crying also. I’d never seen him cry before. And recently watching a family pet of 17 years take her final breath.