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Jack's Blog / Re: Jack's mother has passed
« Last post by Jack on November 21, 2025, 05:11:38 pm »Thank you all for your kind thoughts.
To be honest, I'm doing pretty well. It's been about 15 months since Mom was first diagnosed. She recovered from that initial bout, but it spread, the third round failed, and she was too weak to try again. While there was a rapid decline, we've known this was coming for a while and I've had time to come to grips with it.
I never allowed my kids to be very close with my Mom, because of how she'd treated me, and I never saw any changes in her behavior. She showed up for some holidays, since she spent many of them with her husband and his family. My only kids who were ever close to her was Steve (the elder), whom would often join me for holidays back then, before I got married; Tommy and Caleb, who were her biological grandkids; and Parker, whose mother lived near mine, so when he first lived here, but stayed at school there, he would go to Mom's house until he could be picked up.
Much to my shock - my step-father, whom I've always thought was an emotional eunuch, and with whom I was not only not close, but felt neglected and abused, has taken it very hard, which surprised me. No matter how I feel about him, he's still a human being, and he wasn't bad to my mom, so....
To be honest, I'm doing pretty well. It's been about 15 months since Mom was first diagnosed. She recovered from that initial bout, but it spread, the third round failed, and she was too weak to try again. While there was a rapid decline, we've known this was coming for a while and I've had time to come to grips with it.
I never allowed my kids to be very close with my Mom, because of how she'd treated me, and I never saw any changes in her behavior. She showed up for some holidays, since she spent many of them with her husband and his family. My only kids who were ever close to her was Steve (the elder), whom would often join me for holidays back then, before I got married; Tommy and Caleb, who were her biological grandkids; and Parker, whose mother lived near mine, so when he first lived here, but stayed at school there, he would go to Mom's house until he could be picked up.
Much to my shock - my step-father, whom I've always thought was an emotional eunuch, and with whom I was not only not close, but felt neglected and abused, has taken it very hard, which surprised me. No matter how I feel about him, he's still a human being, and he wasn't bad to my mom, so....
