Widows & Widowers Support Group
This community is dedicated to those who have lost a husband, wife, or partner. Anything is open for discussion here, with the hope that we can focus on grief, bereavement, life after loss, and continuing on after a great loss.
Did anyone not know that cigarette smoking might harm you? I did and I've been smoking anyway for about 42 years now. And I've been lucky, until today that is. Seems I done caught me some malignant throat cancer. Status of lungs presently unknown until tomorrows throat and lung CATscans. No regrets. I could have died from a number of other malodies. 5-bypass heart operation, 10 hours on a heart lung machine even depression. Some might say I really should have given up my cigs then. But no.....I can be and am just a tadbit stubborn.
So this one is out of my hands. Another experience of life approaches. Some say with age comes wisdom. Not me. Life is life. We all make mistakes in life. That's how we learn --- or not. And so the adventure begins ... Scott
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Woke up feeling very emotional and about to clock in at my place of employment. And can't place it all in writing but not been a good experience with my store manager or his boss. Defamation of my character is a concern. I've been losing appetite and weight. Trying to perform at work to keep myself from hospitalization as a result of toxic masculinity.
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This is why I don't go to family functions. I felt very unsupported when I lost my husband in 2020. And my grandmother's 9 living children and hosts of grandchildren turned against me when I was managing my grandma's end of life care as her Power of Attorney. I was the administrator of the grandfather and grandmother's estates (an extremely thankless job that took over two years of my life!) When...
Nicotine is one of the hardest addictions to quit. They make cigarettes like this so people can't quit easily.
We do make mistakes. We often have regrets. But life is a whole string of learning new things or enduring the terrible stuff.
We can be the healthy eater types and still get cancer later on in life. I was one of those that studied nutrition as a hobby starting in college, ate healthy, and because we were fed evaporated milk as babies, both my sister and I have osteoporosis and terrible painful arthritis that limits our lives.
Please let us know how you are doing. Maybe write in a journal that we all will see. This group seems to have slowed way down like most of DS lately. Everyone mostly writes journals and so we need to be friends with anyone, everyone to find their posts on our feed.