Ten Years Ago, on Father's Day. Actually yesterday was the anniversary, June 15, 2003, my mom went to Lancaster General ER for the first time with pneumonia, and they found "spots" on her lungs. She left the hospital that day, and, after.. fifty plus years of smoking, never picked up another cig again. What the hell good did it do her? As everyone who knows me is aware, seven years later she got lung cancer, which took her life two years after that, and now she is gone for over a year.
I spent today with my father and Cheryl at lunch. We had a nice day. Of course, as always, I have thoughts of my mom, as I do every day.
Smoking is such a bad habit. It directly killed two of my immediate family. (Mom and paternal grandfather from cancer) and caused my maternal grandmother to have end stage emphysema where she needed an oxygen machine.
The irony is, as I may have posted before.. I smoked for.. about two years in college., Pipe, pot, a few cigs. Then, when I disassociated from a certain group of friends, I stopped, cold turkey, and have never picked up another smoking material again. I haven't dated smokers, and don't want to, ever, and would prefer to have friends who are non smokers.
I'm convinced the smoking took 10 to 20 years off my mom's life.
Mom, I miss you, and love you, every day. I hope you are happy in the other world. I just wish you had never smoked, and I believe if you hadn't , we would still be together in this world.
I spent today with my father and Cheryl at lunch. We had a nice day. Of course, as always, I have thoughts of my mom, as I do every day.
Smoking is such a bad habit. It directly killed two of my immediate family. (Mom and paternal grandfather from cancer) and caused my maternal grandmother to have end stage emphysema where she needed an oxygen machine.
The irony is, as I may have posted before.. I smoked for.. about two years in college., Pipe, pot, a few cigs. Then, when I disassociated from a certain group of friends, I stopped, cold turkey, and have never picked up another smoking material again. I haven't dated smokers, and don't want to, ever, and would prefer to have friends who are non smokers.
I'm convinced the smoking took 10 to 20 years off my mom's life.
Mom, I miss you, and love you, every day. I hope you are happy in the other world. I just wish you had never smoked, and I believe if you hadn't , we would still be together in this world.
