So, how many people have had a crappy last couple months/weeks?

[Silver Moon]

Wife's Grandfather, and close friend of mine, died.
Wallet got stolen.
Layoffs are pending at work.
Missed deadlines for important school work.
Wife's truck got damaged.
Multiple family members have been sick.
Unexpected expenses have come up.
Other family problems.

Yeah, these past three weeks have been awful!

 

[Eosin the Red]

Oh! Oh! I want to play also. My world has been in the crapper for 3-4 months and it is so bad that it is funny.

To start off with keep in mind that I am 35 years old, my wife is 30, and my kids are 17, 3, & 2.

17 y/o has strange cyst that requires 2 surgeries to remove and the wound is still being packed daily 3 months later.

My wife had to have a surgery that revealed that she needs to have a different surgery.

I passed out at work (in a hospital) and had to be taken to the ER via ambulance. Kinda funny when you think about that. Turns out I get to have an internal defibrilator implanted in my chest cause my heart likes to stop pumping blood.

My orthopeadic doc says he needs to operate on both knees (not at once) and that the cause of my pain is tremendous amounts of blood and soft tissue damage as well as a stress fracture in my right knee. The lateral miniscus is torn and the medial miniscus is deformed (previously operated on). He won't really do much for the pain since I won't do the surgery.

My wife and daughter both caught the flu and were down the entire month of november.

Right before my daughter caught the flu she came home high. She had also been doing other drugs for over a month.

In 4 months I have had $5,000 in auto repairs.

I fell holding my son in the bathroom and went through the wall - total repair bill $5,000.00 plus change.

Unrelated to the bathroom fiasco, I discovered ternimites in my house. Total bill $2,000.00.

Christmas eve was interupted by the death of my nieces grandfather - he was all of 58.

I am sure there is more but all of the minor stuff just kinda seems irrelevant when you are talking about who gets to have surgery first and how long is needed between surgeries so that you can have child care.

With all of that....We are all still hale and whole. My marriage is strong and my family loving. It was the lowest year in terms of stuff happening to me but to say I am anything but blessed is really a lie. Hopefully, this next year I get some karmaric pay back

 

[ConnorSB]

Uhh... i think this month has been crap. these past months, in fact.

Lets see...

While watching TTT the day the Extended edition came out with all my friends, one of them tried to kill himself... in the same room as all of us and the tv...

Yesterday my best friend was DMing and I really pissed him off cause I was screwing around so much. I feel really bad.

I've had signifigant weight gain since I quit water polo...


garr....

 

[Bloodstone Mage]

It was a craptacular time for me and my friends as well...

My dad becomes more deranged and suicidal.

A friend of mine's parents got divorced.

Some of my friends had a falling out. Two of them had a fight, and one got the other one fired from their place at work.

At the end of November, my grandmother was hospitalized.

At the beginning of December, my grandfather passed away

I started failing high school. Really bad. Next semester I have to work extra hard to get through the year as barely passing.

More friends fighting. This time it's the guys I game with.

The same friend who's parents divorced earlier gets kicked out of his favorite campaign.

Fail more school. Talk to counselors and teachers. Parents make phone calls.

I spent my 18th birthday practically alone.

My mom and stepdad started having more and more fights.

I tried to work up the courage to tell the girl I really, really like that I have feelings for her, but I chickened out. And she lives 400 miles away, so I don't get to see her often.

My mom and stepdad fight more. I have to move out. What makes this even harder is that I don't have a job, a driver's license, or any money. I'll have to move in with friends.

Now that's 2004, I'm trying to set out and leave all of that behind me and look foward to what can be done for the future.

 

[LightPhoenix]

2003 was definitely a year of fire and rain. Though 2004 looks to be a year of transition and change, which is good. My issues aren't the worst of everyone's here, but any bad is bad, right?

My father is becoming more and more of a crack head as the days go on. My youngest brother tried to (and luckily failed) to commit suicide. My sister and father have been seriously fighting for about three months now - including a visit by the police a few days ago. There have been a lot of problems on the relationship front, including her fooling around with some guy back in April. I still haven't been able to find a serious job, six months out of school, and I'm beginning to despair that I'll ever find one.

But, on positive notes:

The confrontations with my sister seem to be shocking my father back into some sense of sanity, as far as the drugs are concerned. He even didn't drink all day today, a first in many years.

My brother has been getting counselling, and more importantly doing it willingly.

My girlfriend and I got back together over the summer, and while she did go to Hawaii last semester to study abroad, and there were definite issues, we're still together. She says nothing happened in Hawaii, and I trust her enough to believe that. I spent a week with her over the New Year and things are the best they have been in two years. And, according to her best friend, on the guy she fooled around with - "He's no Robb."

And finally, while I'm still out of work, I'm persuing a lot of options with regards to work, including getting A+ certified as a computer technician. I have a plan that hopefully next year I'll be able to implement, including a long-term goal of mine to get out to the west coast for a while.

 

[Hand of Evil]

The end of the year has not been that good to me but then they have not been good for the last three years. Health, family, the holidays could be better and added to it was paperwork on an employee and his stupid actions, just the wrong time to have things go wrong. It wears a person down.