NJ: I'll keep your dad in my prayers. I can relate to how you are feeling right now. My dad has gone through prostate cancer and the surgery to remove it and then he had a heart attack -- both while he was in WA State and I was clear across the country. I didn't go when he had the prostate surgery, but when he had the heart attack I packed up S7 who was much younger then and was our only one at the time and went.

Now he and mom live down here where we are, but very recently had to be airflighted from here to a bigger city to get more surgery done on his heart.

It's all very scary. I never realize how much older my parents are getting. They are just mom & dad, you know?

Hang in there. Hope you have a good support system.


Me: 38
H: 35
S4, S5, S10
Bomb 01/07
Wanted D - nothing would change his mind
Numerous A's prior to D bomb; EA prior/during D bomb
Piecing 04/07
Deployed for a year 05/07
Still Piecing 2010
M 11 yrs 05/10