Ok let me apologize in advance for my spelling and punctuation. Sorry
I have always been the rock in my family. Even as a kid my sister’s leaned on me. Being the only boy I was there safe place. Then I got married and had kids and became the rock for my family. Fast forward to 4 years ago my girls were 19 and 12 and were in a car accident the truck rolled 4 times. My youngest was thrown from the truck. Broken neck and numerous other injuries. After 6 months in the icu and several surgeries the months of rehab she is back to her beautiful kind self. But during that time we find out my wife has chronic heart failure. So it’s back and forth to the hospital on a monthly basis. Keep in mind it 2 1/2 hr to a decent hospital. They put in a pacemaker get her on meds and we think we are in the clear. Move forward another year thing’s seem to be settling down meds are working just have to make regular visits to Dr. Life says ok deal with this. Stage 4 Metastatic breast cancer that spread to the brain lungs and limp nods. So chemo radiation and a years worth of back and forth to the Dr thing start to look up cancer treatment is going good we think she is going to beat it. Remember the heart failure we’ll the chemo and radiation took her heart from 50% function to 15% now we are back to spending more time in the hospital than we do with our children and grandchild. My wife passed on February 3 2023 from a heart attack. I may have been the rock for all these years. But she is what kept me stable. I am fractured broken I find it hard every day to deal with every day life things that have never bothered me before have me stressed out. The last week has been rough I don’t want to leave the house. I have always been the strong one nothing got to me. Heart of stone something had to be really bad before I was emotional. No it seems all I can do to keep it in but I have to for my girls. So my question is what does the rock do when the load becomes to much too bear?
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@JC, first of all, thank you for being kind enough to share your story here, as I can imagine it might not be easy to ask for support. Also, I can only imagine how heavy this is for you. Like you said, it had to be bad before you were emotional, but anyone with a load this heavy would have had the right to crack long before this point. I am so so happy you found us, this is the place to feel without any apologies!
I understand it’s hard to do small things and tasks that used to be easy, which is extremely normal with this much weight on your heart. I love that you want to stay strong for your girls, but please remember that you are only human, and humans break under too much pressure (as does anything and everything). Please know that we are here to listen, support, and help you in getting connected to resources that might be able to assist you in this journey. As the supporter, the rock, you deserve to get a little bit of that back in return. 🙂
Please let us know what you feel might be most helpful in your time of need, and remember, we have crisis counselors (us) answering the hotline 24/7 to process some of this with you at 866-728-7983!
Warmest regards,
~Anita 🙂