FightMilk@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoWhen you're a kid, you don't realize you're also watching your mom and dad grow up.message-squaremessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up137arrow-down12
arrow-up135arrow-down1message-squareWhen you're a kid, you don't realize you're also watching your mom and dad grow up.FightMilk@lemmy.world to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square4fedilink
minus-squareRCKLSSBNDN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoWhen you are a grown up you don’t realize you are watching your parents die.
minus-squarestiephel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoI definitely started to see my parents decline in my early 20s. They’re still going, but age is coming for them fast.
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoEven when my mother was in a hospital bed we’d brought into the house, thin like a toothpick, I was still wondering what her odds of survival were. It’s so easy to be in denial. Then one moment she just stopped breathing and that was it.
When you are a grown up you don’t realize you are watching your parents die.
I definitely started to see my parents decline in my early 20s. They’re still going, but age is coming for them fast.
Even when my mother was in a hospital bed we’d brought into the house, thin like a toothpick, I was still wondering what her odds of survival were. It’s so easy to be in denial. Then one moment she just stopped breathing and that was it.