Sorry to hear of things haven't been good.Me leaving was not rage-quitting. I've not put what was going on online since most platforms like Fakebook just mines it and shares widely. I'm even leery here, but this site and my profile is probably removed enough to not be giveaways. I don't want to write my autobiography here explaining, but it's not a one sentence thing.
I was not myself around that time. I wanted to remove myself from everything online that included direct interactions. Seemingly everything that could go bad at once was going bad at once. Everyone goes through those sort of things, but I was not quite in my right mind. I was barely functional just for work and home. Early June last year after talking with a close friend, he came over pulled his "little brother" card and dragged me to the ER. I was diagnosed with a rare small chronic (not acute) stroke. Long story short, I also hadn't been watching my numbers closely as a Type 2 Diabetic. I finally forced myself to start testing and the first test was around 540. Between those 2 medical issues, I guess I'm lucky to have been functional at all.
Things have improved since then, but many of the life stresses continued. My parents have been in sharp decline last 2 years and we just lost my mother last month on leap day. There are other stresses, but everyone losses loved ones and most deal with the other issues too.
That's long enough. I'm here and ready to give ya'll a hard time
Yes, it's been pretty quiet in Jim's absence. And he's back just in time for election madness, so that should spice the place up a bit.This site is about as low-key as it gets though. Just realized that a lot of the still-live threads on this forum were started by you -- in some cases, several years ago...
Sorry about your mother. I know how that is. My mother passed in 2020 (not infected, BTW, just 99 years old).
I try to live up to her standards. Fortunately, things have improved for me the last few years. I have several part time jobs, I've been able to save some money (the pandemic really messed up my savings), I'm feeling fine and helping other people which is always uplifting.
Anytime a parent or even grandparent dies one is forced to examine one's life and priorities. My dad died over 30 years ago. So I had to find myself thinking hard about that!Thank you Cecilia. 99 is a pretty good age at least, but I know it's never easy. My mother was always respected and loved, but her passing has made a lot of us reflect how much of the people we are was due to her. In particular myself and my daughter have spoken on how many interests and personality leanings we have are directly due to her.
Anytime a parent or even grandparent dies one is forced to examine one's life and priorities.
What???? Red? The real Red????? You had us worried when you went
Good to see you back, Red! I am so sorry to hear about your mom.
I think she was really blessed with getting to know even her great grandkids.
I know the dark feelings, I have lost my father a couple of years ago.
I am very similar to my dad, and I was always hobbying around with computers together with my dad, and we also discussed a lot, and I miss that still today.