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corgi37 wrote:
I didnt really want to say anything, but i felt i should as i consider you bastards and bitches like a kind of family.

My darling mother is not long for this world. She has liver & pancreas cancer. Its terminal. It's not curable. Not even really delay-able. There is no hoping for anything, except a speedy resolution. She's just spent over a week in hospital, and she's still in intensive care (soon to be out though). This is not for the cancer, its for something else. They "found" the cancer while operating and just prior through tests. Earlier this year, she had a breast removed due to cancer. Fair to say, she's riddled with the wicked shit.

So, i am not really looking for any sympathy for this old devil. I just thought i would share with my brethren, and er, sister-ren. Er, sister hood. Whatever.

We will all go through the loss of parents. At least, i hope. It's the circle of life. I can think of nothing worse than a parent saying goodbye to a child, though my wife and i have done that too.

My family and i hope we have 1 more Christmas. Yes, its that bad, and that aggressive. My love to you all, and i hope you can all hug ya mum's as much as possible. My Mum told me (mainly as a joke, but it's quite poignant) that you can have heaps of lays, alot of girlfriends, even a few wives...but you only have 1 Mum - Mom to my Yank friends.

And she is right.

I dont feel sadness, i only feel love. When the time comes, i will be gutted. But, i will try to be strong for others. I feel it will only be when my 4 yr old twins do something special, and i think "I'll call Mum", or even (and she knows my Stones passion and was very happy for me when i saw them in Sydney with wifey, Daeth, Mrs. Daeth and his, now my, mate Mat) "the Stones are coming back, i gotta tell Mum!", or any other thing that she would love, and she wont be there. Thats when it will hit me. The thought of me never talking to her again makes me sick.

I am not Robinson Crusoe. Some of you fine folk have lost parents too. But, hey, she's mine. I dont want to bring things down, but i felt i had to share, as things will be hard in the next few weeks (yes, that soon), but i hope its a while yet. My Mum is tough old bitch, and she'll go out fighting, and she'll go out her fucking way. And i support her. There will be no more operations.

If you can post some nice stuff, that would be cool, and i will show her when she gets out of hospital. Just to prove to her that Stones fans are not all long haired, dirty, foul mouthed degenerates.

She doesnt like the Stones. Heck, she dont like anything post 1960 (though, oddly, she thinks Bowie has a nice voice!). But, apart from trying to piss her off in my teens with SYMPATHY and STAR STAR, she was always amazed at the tenderness of songs like Love in vain and Angie. And, of course, only a couple of weeks ago, she rang me to say "Why are the Rolling Stone on Days of our lives?"

Take care all.

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