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Message: [QUOTE="Engineer90, post: 3206728, member: 9712"] Been there and it is tough. My father died from cancer at 54. I was in the fall semester of my junior year at UConn. It was finals week and I was sleeping at my girlfriend's dorm (now wife). I knew he was in bad shape but I didn't think it was THAT close. My sister called campus police who came to my wife's dorm room to give me the bad news. It was well after midnight and I drove across the state on eerily quiet roads, alone, with nothing but my own thoughts. As people have already said, the grief always subsides with time. But there will be times over the coming years when you really wish he was there. They are rough but all you can do is your best to and try to squeeze as much enjoyment out of your precious days here on earth. Now I am in my 50s and I can tell you that I still wish he was here, more than 30 years later. Certain things still bring me to the brink of tears. We found out he had cancer the summer before my freshman year. The treatments were brutal but he quickly went into remission. Then it came back just as quickly the summer before my junior year. He told me the only reason he was going to do the treatments again was so he could see me graduate. It still hurts to write that and I can't speak those words without losing it. Like myself, you will find yourself missing him a lot and wishing he could be there for your kids. It sucks. But as much of a void as that is, do your best to be aware of how much you are enjoying those moments with your kids. For when those days are done, you will miss them as much or more. Enjoy the hell out of every concert, game, graduation and so on. I wish you peace and many happy days in the future. [/QUOTE]

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