Who is ready to say Goodbye to 2010

[HollyS]

I am sincerely sorry for all who lost love ones this year. eta: I am so sorry about your dad Holly.

This week has been an extremely hard week for my family and I. A childhood neighbor that I have know all my life lost his battle to cancer; he had a beautiful wife and children. Then a few days later my cousin lost her battle to cancer and has left behind a young son and within a few hours my Uncle passed away. I just couldn't believe this all happened within this past week. I am just praying and hoping that no other family passes away for awhile. I do feel blessed to have had all these wonderful family/friends in my life.

Thank you, Skippy. And many prayers for your own losses, sweetie.

 

[diamondringlover]

It has been a really rough year for me, constant battle to keep my marriage intact, the loss of my father is by far the worse of the year, my sisters teenage sons girlfriend had a baby and of course they have no way to support the baby, i have had health issues, my job sucks, its just been bad all the way around....i hope 2011 is my year, we shall see.

 

[Octavia]

I'm so sorry to hear that many of you had a bad year. I'm sending each of you dust for a brighter, happier new year. My year wasn't awful, it wasn't great, it was just sort of there. I had some big stressors but fortunately they all resolved in the end. I don't mind so much that 2010 is over, but I absolutely agree with the earlier poster who has some regrets for all the things that could/should have been done and weren't. In some ways, I feel like I didn't really live this year, I just existed. Definitely looking to change that in 2011.

 

[Imdanny]

It's funny to those of us who this year wanted the holidays to be over. You go out on Jan 1 and 1/2 of everything is open and 1/2 of everything is closed. It sure didn't make for an efficient trip. Basically, it was grocery store, open, health food store closed, grocery's store's pharmacy open (probably), family pharmacy, closed. I guess it would have been better to call first.

 

[bebe]

Danny - how is your foot ?

 

[ksinger]

I am sincerely sorry for all who lost love ones this year. eta: I am so sorry about your dad Holly.

This week has been an extremely hard week for my family and I. A childhood neighbor that I have know all my life lost his battle to cancer; he had a beautiful wife and children. Then a few days later my cousin lost her battle to cancer and has left behind a young son and within a few hours my Uncle passed away. I just couldn't believe this all happened within this past week. I am just praying and hoping that no other family passes away for awhile. I do feel blessed to have had all these wonderful family/friends in my life.

So sorry to hear that Skippy. It seems there has been a lot of illness/death swirling near me this last year, near so many people really. An aunt and uncle of mine came in over Thanksgiving with the plan to move my uncle's elderly parents, back to Louisville with them, but the very day they got here, his father passed away. And a good friend of mine who is a doctor, has a mother who has just given up the chemo/radiation treatment for metastacized lung cancer, and whose father is also suffering from late stage pulmonary fibrosis. So while I've not been hit directly, I seem to know an awful lot of people who are being touched by loss right now, and I have several funerals likely looming this year.

Three loved ones in one week is very tough. You have my deepest sympathy. I hope the new year is boring and uneventful for you, in the best possible way.

 

[AprilBaby]

So sorry for all of you that had tragedies this last year, especially this last month! 2010 was a mixed blessing for us. I spent the end of the year in and out of the hospital but got to take some amazing vacations before and in between. Here's looking to a bright and healthy 2011 for ALL of us!

 

[jstarfireb]

I'm sorry to hear about all the trials people went through this year! I personally had a mixed year. Late in 2009 I decided to make a big career change - I switched residency programs and moved from the east coast to the west coast in June 2010. This was so unbelievably good for me, but it took me away from my husband, who's still doing his residency on the east coast, and that has been really hard. Not to mention the rest of my friends and family are all on the east coast. Also, my new residency class has been hit pretty hard so far. We've had two people taken out of commission by injuries (a hip fracture and an ankle fracture), one who committed suicide, and one who decided to switch residency programs in the same way that I did. For me, though, the good overshadows the bad, because my mental health and well-being is so much better now that I'm doing what I really want to do. I also feel like I fit in much better with my new class than my old one.

 

[Imdanny]

Danny - how is your foot ?

Thanks for asking. You know they said the x rays showed nothing abnormal about it, it doesn't hurt now, but there's still this small bump. I'm thinking: What? I don't know what it is or what I can do about it. Sigh.

How is your toe?

 

[FuturePsyD]

Wishing everyone a much better 2011! My condolences to all who have lost loved ones!

Yes, I am happy 2010 is done and over with. Definitely was not the best year, including job losses and our home being burglarized and being stripped of most of our possessions. Not to mention the horrible feeling of violation and fear that someone has been in our home.

This coming on the tail-end of 2009, which was another horrible year that included the death of my beloved grandmother, amongst many other hard to bear events.

2010 was uneventful and dull, marked by mainly bad occurrences. I am praying that the tide will turn for those of us who dealt with a difficult year!