Today would be my dad's 51st birthday. He died 22 years ago, not long after my 4th birthday, and my brother was almost 5.
My aunt (his sister) died just before him at 24 from an aortic aneurysm, and all of the other "kids" got checked, but they managed to miss my dad's bulging aneurysm in his chest, and he died just 2 weeks later when his aorta split while riding his motorbike home from work. They got him to hospital but the damage was done and they could not save him.
It was so long ago and I barely remember him, but his memory lives on, and the hurt never ends.
I know he's looking down watching everything I do, and I hope I'm doing him proud.
Happy birthday dad.
My aunt (his sister) died just before him at 24 from an aortic aneurysm, and all of the other "kids" got checked, but they managed to miss my dad's bulging aneurysm in his chest, and he died just 2 weeks later when his aorta split while riding his motorbike home from work. They got him to hospital but the damage was done and they could not save him.
It was so long ago and I barely remember him, but his memory lives on, and the hurt never ends.
I know he's looking down watching everything I do, and I hope I'm doing him proud.
Happy birthday dad.
