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<blockquote data-quote="Mattsmom277" data-source="post: 279854" data-attributes="member: 4264"><p>Tammy, I indeed have read many of your posts. First, congrats on being a grandmother and also soon to be once again <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Thats wonderful that you and Joey are so close. What a gift!!!</p><p>I had read about your daughter coming out to you. Im happy to hear you two have a bond where she is open and feels safe talking to you. I understand your husband has his right to his convictions, I am certainly glad to hear that they have chosen the dont ask dont tell approach. I would have been saddened had they lost having a relationship. That happens so often. Sounds like he won't risk losing your daughter due to his beliefs vs hers. For that I applaud him. Your easy child needs both parents. Perhaps this part of her life she wont' be sharing with your husband, but she does have you to talk to and she still has her dad. That's wonderful.</p><p></p><p>I am sorry to hear young difficult child is having surgery. I can imagine it must frighten him, he is a young man. I don't know if his drug use would lead to this but I find it likely it at least contributed in some way. Drugs are just so invasive and the body isn't meant to try to cope with being diluged with them. I hope that his recover is speedy and I hope that perhaps this scare will help him open his eyes to the joys and possibilites in life and all that life has to offer him. I know he is struggling in many ways from what I have read. Maybe this will be a blessing in disguise and he will appreciate that catching this heart issue earlier may well be saving his life. If a man such as him, young, but throwing away such opportunities that others would give anything to have, gets a second chance, he is duty bound to himself, his child and upcoming child, Mindy, you and your husband etc to make the best of it each and every day from here on out. We do not need to be defined by our past when we begin to live each day the right way with the right intentions and the right goals. He is more than capable. Hopefully this will wisen him up to his incredible potential and he will begin living up to it. Sometimes good comes from bad. I am sorry to hear he is so convinced this is "the end" for him. Maybe though this horrible fear will work to his advantage when he wakes up after that surgery when he obviously doesn't expect to. I'd be tempted when he breaks down afterwards with gratitude for surviving this (and he will, these things are frightening for sure but incredibly routine and I'm sure he'll do just fine <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) to comfort him and slip in some sort of seed for thought about how he just was given a chance to do it all over, start fresh with eyes that have seen the possibility that he might be gone before he lived up to what is needed of him. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>Enjoy your day with your family Tammy <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> Sounds from what I have read that you all have come a long way too. I'm proud of you. I must say that you sound wonderful in the posts I read. Sure there is struggle still amongst your family, but you sound balanced and healthy and happy. That is terrific <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mattsmom277, post: 279854, member: 4264"] Tammy, I indeed have read many of your posts. First, congrats on being a grandmother and also soon to be once again :) Thats wonderful that you and Joey are so close. What a gift!!! I had read about your daughter coming out to you. Im happy to hear you two have a bond where she is open and feels safe talking to you. I understand your husband has his right to his convictions, I am certainly glad to hear that they have chosen the dont ask dont tell approach. I would have been saddened had they lost having a relationship. That happens so often. Sounds like he won't risk losing your daughter due to his beliefs vs hers. For that I applaud him. Your easy child needs both parents. Perhaps this part of her life she wont' be sharing with your husband, but she does have you to talk to and she still has her dad. That's wonderful. I am sorry to hear young difficult child is having surgery. I can imagine it must frighten him, he is a young man. I don't know if his drug use would lead to this but I find it likely it at least contributed in some way. Drugs are just so invasive and the body isn't meant to try to cope with being diluged with them. I hope that his recover is speedy and I hope that perhaps this scare will help him open his eyes to the joys and possibilites in life and all that life has to offer him. I know he is struggling in many ways from what I have read. Maybe this will be a blessing in disguise and he will appreciate that catching this heart issue earlier may well be saving his life. If a man such as him, young, but throwing away such opportunities that others would give anything to have, gets a second chance, he is duty bound to himself, his child and upcoming child, Mindy, you and your husband etc to make the best of it each and every day from here on out. We do not need to be defined by our past when we begin to live each day the right way with the right intentions and the right goals. He is more than capable. Hopefully this will wisen him up to his incredible potential and he will begin living up to it. Sometimes good comes from bad. I am sorry to hear he is so convinced this is "the end" for him. Maybe though this horrible fear will work to his advantage when he wakes up after that surgery when he obviously doesn't expect to. I'd be tempted when he breaks down afterwards with gratitude for surviving this (and he will, these things are frightening for sure but incredibly routine and I'm sure he'll do just fine :) ) to comfort him and slip in some sort of seed for thought about how he just was given a chance to do it all over, start fresh with eyes that have seen the possibility that he might be gone before he lived up to what is needed of him. ;) Enjoy your day with your family Tammy :) Sounds from what I have read that you all have come a long way too. I'm proud of you. I must say that you sound wonderful in the posts I read. Sure there is struggle still amongst your family, but you sound balanced and healthy and happy. That is terrific :) [/QUOTE]
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