Maybe I'm from Eox, My mother just died.

[Driftbourne]

4 days ago I was playing ball with my 81-year-old mother 3 times a day. Then she had a series of multiple strokes. I had to go home from the hospital last night to let Hospice in to set up a bed for her. This morning I went in to see her before they moved her home. As I get 20 feet from the hospital door, the doctor calls and says she doesn't have long. I make it to the room just in time, and everyone leaves me alone with her. I tell her shes been a good mom, and they tell her to just let go. She immediately exhales one last time, the end... It was peaceful.

So why am I writing this here? On the way home, I passed the game store where I play Starfinder Society. I have the Player Core PDF, but the idea popped into my head if I buy the hardcopy of the SF2e Player Core now, every time I play the game, I will remember my mother.

So why Eox? You should have seen the look on the nurse's face after my mother died and I asked. "So how long will this condition last?"

Michaelyn Thompson 2-23-1944 / 8-27-2025 rest in peace.

[Justnobodyfqwl]

Thanks for sharing, Driftbourne. I lost a parent too, about a year ago now. People told me that they were sorry, since I was younger than most people who lose a parent. But to be honest, I don't think there's any good time or age for it. It happens very slowly, and the very suddenly all at once.

If it helps, my family also immediately cracked jokes about it after he passed, too.

[Driftbourne]

Also, thanks for sharing, Justnobodyfqwl. I was my mother's caregiver, so had lots of time with her. My sister on the other hand, is devastated. She had just gotten over having pneumonia for 16 days, the day I took my mother to the hospital, so I hadn't talked to her in 2 weeks. My mother passed away as my sister was boarding her plane.

One of my grandmothers died on a Friday; she used to have 1 beer and a frozen pizza every Friday. My dad was destroyed, couldn't stop crying. On the way home from the hospital, we stopped to get beer and a frozen pizza to remember her with. I was in charge of getting the pizza, so what did I get? A Tombstone Pizza, of course. My dad was so mad at me and just cried more. He kept asking why not any other pizza, and I said Because it's a tombstone, get it? Then he asked Are you serious, and I said yes. Then he asked, " Did you do that on purpose, Again, I said yes. Then he started laughing, and the rest of the night was everyone telling stories about my grandmother, many of them quite funny. It ended up being a night that brought all of us together.

[The Ronyon]

I'm at the age of losing my parents as well.
My father is slipping away into Alzheimer's, my mother is fatigued from caring for/losing him.
Thank you for sharing your stories here.
It's good to see each other as humans, even as we pretend to be other things.

[OrochiFuror]

I hope you get to play often and have that connection flourish.

I have a friend who lost both parents in his 30's. It's been several years and I've done my best to be a good supportive friend since he has no other family around, none worth mentioning. I buried his dog for him earlier this year. He's very distant and makes it hard to connect and help though.
Hopefully everyone has people they can lean on in times of need, and aren't afraid to do so.

[bugleyman]

I've very sorry for your loss.

I'm glad you got to say goodbye; that's no small thing. When I lost my mother several years ago, she went quite suddenly (pulmonary embolism).

[Hilary Moon Murphy]

I am so sorry for your loss, Driftbourne. I felt so terrible when I lost my father. My mom's still alive, and I have made a much bigger effort to reach out to her each week because our connections are precious.