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Originally Posted by rca2000
SOme of you know that last year was NOT a good year for me.
It all began BAD this time last year---when my storage garage got robbed. I NEVER got back ANY of my stuff....and the landlords were NOT very considerate about it, either. I got a BIT of money back,m about 1K from insurance--but that CANNOT replace things like a 29JC20 complete chassis , a BUNCH of tube amp chassis, radios, tube car radios, etc...etc...
But if that is ALL that had happened.......I would have just "shrugged it off" as another disappointment. But it was just the BEGINNING of bad times for me !!
IN late MAy, I ended up with Kidney failure.....I was placed on Dialysis. I ALMOST dies, on May 18th, the morning of the ETF convention I was supposed to attend....but I was "brought back', from not breathing, and "Given another chance"..but only "half a man", as I describe myself.
days a week 4 HOURS a day of Dialysis...and this is STILL the case---and may be for a LONG time too....though my kidney function HAS improved a lot...
Then in Late August.....my dear mother died suddenly of a massive brain aneurysm. NO warnings. She was NOT sick--not even for a DAY !! That was EXACTLY the way she "wanted to go", quick, painlessly and not "lingering on machines'...so God was merciful in that too...but STILL mom was CLOSE to me--more than anyone else....and so I was, and still am devastated !!
ANyway.....I know most won't care--almost NONE of my "friends" or relatives did. Just a recap. But I DID fix my first tv board the other day--since mom died. A simple re-cap of an LCD PS. BUT I did it WITHOUT the set and made SURE all of the run voltages are there after repair--as I always did. It felt GOOD to get "back into it" after all of that trauma. I hope if will NOT be the last time either !! I also trolbleshot a projo--"leakage" on the signal board, and another flat-panel with no remote function, looks to be a bad IR sensor. ALLof that felt good to do !!
I SINCERELY pray this year will be better. I CANNOT stand another year like 2013...
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I'm sorry to hear that! I had a horrible year myself. My cousin passed away on Easter and my mother was diagnosed with inflammatory breast cancer soon after and she passed away November 18th. Also the brain mets (it spread to her brain as well as other places) did affect her judgement from time to time and caused her to sleep a lot, she was coherent and understanding 80% of the time until the last day of her life where she slipped into a coma for a few hours and passed on. I'm thankful for that where at least she did not have to suffer hat way for a long time although I'm sure she did suffer otherwise. Like you mom was close to you, my mom was close to me. I feel like Robin without Batman. I'm still trying to deal with it
What's weird is my bother in law's mother passed away two weeks after mine (I have a step brother and step sisters, my father remarried) and he runs the cancer research program at Ohio State. My mother's best friend, her mother passed on too. It was a bad year for me too.