Ted Haggard

[GenuineRisk]

Originally Posted by Cajungator26

Genuine, I'm so sorry to hear about your Mom.

Everyone on the female side of my family (mom excluded, thank God) has died of cancer. I too have been seeing the gyno since a young age, and you're right, it stinks.

I'm sorry about your family medical history, too! Ugh. My mom was the only one on that side to die of breast cancer, but my grandfather died the year after she died and my grandmother the year after that. As awful as it was for me, as an adult I feel worst for my aunt, my mom's sister, who lost her entire immediate family in three years. She never married, so she has no immediate family of her own. Fortunately, my dad's side of the family scooped her right up and she spends holidays, etc., with my dad and stepmom and my dad's sister and brother's families. She sat with the family at my paternal grandfather's funeral, too-- I think most of my dad's side have forgotten she's not from their side to begin with.

[Cajungator26]

Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

I'm sorry about your family medical history, too! Ugh. My mom was the only one on that side to die of breast cancer, but my grandfather died the year after she died and my grandmother the year after that. As awful as it was for me, as an adult I feel worst for my aunt, my mom's sister, who lost her entire immediate family in three years. She never married, so she has no immediate family of her own. Fortunately, my dad's side of the family scooped her right up and she spends holidays, etc., with my dad and stepmom and my dad's sister and brother's families. She sat with the family at my paternal grandfather's funeral, too-- I think most of my dad's side have forgotten she's not from their side to begin with.

Family is so important... I think that in this day and age, Americans across the board (in all parties) tend to forget that family is what it's all about. I'm sorry to hear about the deaths in your family. I miss my grandparents... I've got none left and I wish I would have spent more time with them as a kid.