Ever since the end of November, things have just not been going well for me, in life and related to my hobbies. First, at the end of November, my pap had major brain surgery to remove a large tumor. He was in a number of hospitals and nursing homes until he finally came home in mid January, however this surgery somewhat affected him as a person and he's been slightly off since then. He's also had colon cancer since 2005 that's since spread to his lungs, they gave him 5 months to live then and he's still kicking so it's a miracle he's lived this long. This is sad for me not only because he's family but because he is one of my biggest supporters of everything I do and my main fishing buddy who know has a hard time fishing for longer periods of time like we used to. My school work has been increasingly larger in quantity and in difficulty since about December and I'm spending tons of my free time just studying when I'm not doing tank maintenance. Next, I had some unknown "eye illness" for all of January where I could barely see they were so itchy. Next, I'm having to deal with some personal things that I've been facing since childhood that I'd prefer not to share, however it is a very stressful and life changing thing. Then, a week ago, my dad came home from work with what we thought was bad food poisoning from eating month old turkey. It was so bad two days later that we took him to the hospital to discover that he had a (and his first) heart attack from drinking and smoking so he had some stents put in. He says he's done with both now, I'm hoping he's finally going to stop this time. And finally, today was what topped it all off. I go on my friend's (this friend co-owns my favorite fish store with two other guys) Facebook page and see that his fish store will be closed for a few weeks to a month or so because the other two owners are "out of commission". I text him to find out what happened and as it turned out, the one friend/co-owner who's he's known for the longest time is dying of cancer and only has months to live and the other guy needs hip surgery and can't work in the store anymore. He also discovered that the second guy has been secretly stealing money that he was supposed to be paying store bills with for months so my friend's store was so close to going under. I offered to to whatever I can do to help out at the store once he reopens when I'm there but the store is 40 minutes away so I'm not out there but every two weeks or so. This is just getting to the point where I'm going to break soon. I'm really just hoping that this will all be in the past soon and that soon things are just going to get much better, I'm betting a lot of you guys know how this feels. Anyone else going through some tough times lately?
