I want it:))

thanks much and I'm so sorry about your mom. I know that with time I'll lose this feeling that my throat is going to close up every time I breathe, but I will probably see a movie on TCM that he liked or go to the grocery store where he used to work part time after retirement and lose it. But that's OK; so it goes.

Replying to myself because I don't think I can edit for a second time - I saw your other responses re: wanting to and contemplating keeping the dog. I'm sorry to have potentially caused any guilt. A big thing now - or at least it was for me - is to trust your own decisions unwaveringly.

I'm so sorry. It sounds like you were really close to your grandpa. My grandma passed away six years ago and I talk to her ALL the time. I can still hear her voice and can imagine exactly what she would say in a conversation. I like to think about how even though she is no longer in the physical form she had when she…

thanks, you're exactly right and I'm grateful he didn't suffer. I hope that when the time comes something similar happens to me.

Thank you. He was watching TV with the dog which was in his top 3 favorite things to do (along with eating crappy food he wasn't supposed to have and complaining about how things were better in the olden days), so I know he was happy. My grandma (his wife) went through a long battle with colon cancer before she…

That's a great idea re: the retirement community! That would be a great way to honor his memory. And, hey, maybe it could lead into a friendly relationship with a lonely person if she wants to go that route. My dad is in a nursing home. I wish they had a program with therapy animals because he really misses our poor,…

Honestly I thought about keeping her for approximately a minute and immediately knew she wouldn't be happy with me. She's a very small and sedentary dog who would be happiest in a quiet home where someone was there with her all day and she was the center of attention. My house is home to two active boxers (one a puppy…

My condolences to you. My mom will have been gone two years this April. She wasn't entirely well, but she passed after a fairly sudden bout with pneumonia. I had about five days where she was sick in the hospital to process that she was going to pass most likely, but it still felt very sudden in the long run. I…

It sound like he died happy. No prolonged hospital stays, none of the indignities that often accompany death. I'm so sorry for your loss. I hope your find a home for that sweet pup, she is no doubt suffering along with you.

So sorry for your loss :( Sudden deaths are so shocking. Knowing they are coming is shocking! You will feel all kinds of things, don't be afraid to voice them here. I was crying all over group think two weeks ago after a friend died, it helped a lot. Maybe check a retirement community to see if someone would like a…

I'm so sorry.

I don't know you so ignore if you want, but don't you think you might regret getting rid of your Poppy's dog? I think it would break my heart.

Yesterday evening we found my grandfather dead in his lazy boy with the TV on and his little dog in his lap. We didn't expect this but he was 81 and I guess if you have to go, that's the way to do it. There was no prolonged illness and he still had all his mental faculties. I've been holding myself together pretty…

I miss Burt’s Saturday night Hiddles parties (you are excellent Mark but the ability Burt has to relate everything to Hiddles is uncanny). In that spirit (and because I got screwed over about something I was really excited for and need a pick me up), these photos from his Top Gear episode are full of scruff and…

Yeah, I've got to say, the shrill cries of "she was 19!!" don't do a lot to assuage my concerns about the Soon-Yi thing either. What is the appreciable difference between a 17 and a 19 year old in maturity? Well, obviously it varies greatly, but 19 year olds, to me, are still kids. There is a line in the sand that the…

Not only a custody dispute that was initiated as a result of his actions, but one that was literally initiated by him: the dispute was that he was trying to GAIN custody of the children.

I'm so sorry that happened to you, but thank you so much for sharing.

After reading the custody suit, in full, I believe Mia & Dylan.

Speaking from personal experience as a person who was molested from about 6 years old to almost 16, this really hits a nerve.

My father was my abuser, and it started all very "innocently", my mom was hospitalized frequently when I was young, and he'd comfort me. The comfort turned into inappropriate attention, which…