A blog post to make you cry

I can't relate to anything in this, but I'll be damned if I'm not still choking back tears.

http://jenniferlawler.com/wordpress/?p=747

 

God that's so powerful.

 

Thanks for that link, IJAG.

 

I just can't bear another of those. A few days ago, I read a blog entry/interview of a guy I knew from the college paper - how he's left to raise his 6yo daughter after his wife felt a little sick, was later diagnosed with pneumonia and died at the hospital. And how he told his daughter, Kiki, about her mom not coming home, and about how she still asks about her mom. Tore my friggin' heart out. Then this.

I give up.

EDIT: Here's the interview with Ron Cowie, the guy from my college paper days.
http://goodmenproject.com/2010/07/22/love-survives/

 

Holy. Freaking. Crap.

I feel so inadequate right now. Thanks for sharing, IJAG.

 

Yeah, my life has been "unlived" because my children don't have brain damage.

Inspiring.

 

Damn it.

My wife is less than 3 weeks from the due date for our first. This blog is hitting me hard right now. Thanks for sharing it, IJAG.

 

Tremendous post. I'll have to check back after Aug. 10 to see how her daughter did during the surgery.

 

Aside from the emotional wallop, that is some damn fine writing too. The "Satan and ten men" device is something that will stick for a while.

Sluggo -- stay classy.

 

If that's really what you take from it, then I'm sad for you.

The point was that when you have children, your scale of what "enjoyment" is goes from what you enjoyed doing for yourself to the joy you get from having others in your life. Regardless of the strains or struggles.