I remember when I was six years old, my mother was required to have lengthy stays in hospital for radiation related to life threatening cervical cancer.
Every second Sunday (as on the other sunday my mother was allowed a leave home) my father would take us to visit my mother.
My father and I never had a close relationship (even at age six - I feared and loathed him) and I found no comfort in his care of us over the time my mother was receiving her treatment (six months), in fact I experienced quite the opposite.
But walking into the hospital with my dad was important. I remember his resolute commitment to getting us there to see my mum. We had no car and my father had to regularly organise a family friend to take us, my father had a high level of pride and to ask for help, well it must of shamed him significantly.
There's only a few things that I remember and respect my father for Mahhhty, but for me it was and has been a very important memory.
You are an incredible father and I have been dedicated throughout this and likely into the long term. I know your children will have lots of good memories of you and your acts and activities. This might be an essential one to create.
It's not for you Mahhhty that you need to take them, it's for your kids, to remember you were there.
The above is said with so much respect, please take this with the good intent with which it was said.
