2013
my dad had just had a stroke a few months earlier, he used to be a singer and couldn't do that anymore so he got real depressed and tried to commit that in February.
Had to move him up close to me so I could take care of him, he only ever got paid under the table though and didn't pay taxes so I could only get a few $$ a month for him from the government. Found a cheap one bedroom apartment around the corner from me and gave him as much money as I could to make him comfortable. Went over after work everyday and made him supper, brought him cigarettes, weed, watched movies with him etc. Had von nurses coming through during the day.
Around this time found out my stepfather had pancreatic cancer and only had about 6 months unless an operation went well (it didn't) Him and moms were superintendents of their apt. building after being bankrupt (he was in real estate before) so that was how they paid rent. He got sick real fast and couldn't take care of the building anymore (cleaning entrances, hallways, laundry rooms, shovelling, salting etc.) so I started splitting time between going there to take care of all that for them to keep their place and going to dad's. (plus I was working 12 hour shifts at my regular job)
Around april my daughters (7) mother locked herself in a hotel room and swallowed a bottle of pills, she called her mother to say bye and somehow she knew where she was and the ambulance got there in time. She was in the mental ward for awhile but was eventually discharged. Ended up back there 3 more times that year.
We had a bad winter starting early that year so sometimes I was working 12 hour backshifts, going to moms to shovel/salt all day (bunch of snowstorms) then going back to work the next night without sleeping. Plus I would have my daughter cause her moms was fukking up and I was still making time for short visits with my dad everyday I could.
October 27th I brought my dad a pack of smokes and found him dead on the floor beside his bed facedown in a pool of blood. Thought he did it himself (and felt like I failed him) but found out later it was massive heart failure.
My stepdad stayed at home throughout cause he didn't want to live in a hospital but eventually I had to move there because I just needed to be there all the time to take care of the building and my moms who was taking care of him. Worse because my kid was with me so much she seen him getting sicker all the time and my mom would sometimes have to watch her while I worked.
We do Christmas morning on boxing day because she comes over after her mother and her open presents at home Christmas morning.
My stepdad died while we were opening presents
fukk 2013
took care of moms all 2014, was really fukked up in my head and drinking all the time for the first 6 months but I'm getting over it all now (still drinking a lot but fukk it)
my daughter's mother is doing much better now, took some trial and error with meds but she's leveled out it seems
moms is doing much better and moving out in the next month or so, finally have my own place again
2015 is mine
felt good to write all that down