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10-20-2007, 08:24 PM
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My son is 16. I am probably going to let him start the process of getting his license in January. I am not ready for him to drive but I may need him to while I am going through treatments and especially after the surgery. There was a 17 year old girl in his school killed in a car wreck last week. I really hate when they grow up and we have to let go.
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10-20-2007, 09:29 PM
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I am sure it will always mean a lot to him, that he was able to act as an adult and drive you to and from your treatments.
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10-20-2007, 09:45 PM
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10-20-2007, 10:20 PM
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My father went back and forth with letting us help and needing to handle it on his own. I can relate to that - these days I have to accept any help that's offered but it almost always feels a bit off. I am so grateful for all that I am given.
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10-21-2007, 03:44 AM
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I don't think we'll ever stop worrying. My 31 year old neice lives about 2 hours away and my brother still makes her call before she comes home and after she arrives back to her house. I guess in some way...they will always be our babies.
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10-21-2007, 08:16 AM
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Thank God your son is okay. I'm so sorry about the others who were hurt and even killed.
It is, I have learned, as hard to let go and let them grow up as it is to raise them. If my daughter and I were on good terms, I would be up her butt for sure now that she's sick! I probably would be living in the same town as her, worrying constantly. I remember the first day she got her car and took it out alone. I was on the beach having a very quiet nervous breakdown since I was in public. Sheryl - you put it perfectly "Place that bottled up fear into an angel's hands and try to relax." As I sat there, freaking out, I realized I better call in my angels. I gave it over to them, and I told my mother (who I had not gotten along with when she was alive at all), that if she made sure that Jessie was okay, I would forgive her. So far, Jessie has never been in an accident!
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10-22-2007, 01:57 AM
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Judy, so true. It IS as hard to let them grow up, as it is to raise them. Placing that bottled up fear in angels hands is something i am going to have to do.
He gave himself away yesterday, we were driving home when my husband asked him, wheres that shooting club you visited with school, lets go see if they open, so we can go, and have a look. He showed us, from there he said "oh you dont need to go back to the main road, take the back road" I asked him, how he knew hes way around there, because i would get lost there, he said, hes been there with Mark. Now those roads are used for races by these kids, and so dangerous, theres tractors coming/going all day long, pulling up from these little side roads, and there are many of those crossings, so i told him never ever to go there again ~ seriously, i dont think i even want to know where they all hang out.
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