Motherhood, Farrah Fawcett, and the hardest goodbye

re: Motherhood, Farrah Fawcett, and the hardest goodbye

Leila — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:30:32 GMT

I'm also terrified of dying young because of my son. He has special needs and I hope to stick around for him until I'm at least 80!!!!

It's so sad about Redmond O'Neal. I hope the experience in prison will turn his life around... As horrible as it is, at least there he won't be able to take drugs for a long time and that might be more effective than a rehab clinic.

re: Motherhood, Farrah Fawcett, and the hardest goodbye

Stephanie — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:13:39 GMT

Just reading this I had to fight back tears. Though I haven't lost a parent, just the thought of leaving my 6 month old daughter is like looking into the abyss. I can't fathom it. I think to carry that kind of pain, knowing that you will have to leave your baby behind, would be unbearable. As if knowing you were going to die wasn't painful enough... Farrah's story touched me, more than anything has in quite a long time. I truly hope that wherever she is know, she is able to watch over her baby boy and have some kind of peaceful eternity.

re: Motherhood, Farrah Fawcett, and the hardest goodbye

marta rose — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:43:45 GMT

i have a friend whose daughter died at the age of 35, leaving behind a 3 yo and a 5yo. i didn't know his daughter, and i had only just gotten back in touch with him around the time she died, so i'm not privvy to what that was like for her, to say good-bye. but it haunts me; just thinking about it two years later still makes me cry.

re: Motherhood, Farrah Fawcett, and the hardest goodbye

Liz — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:40:14 GMT

Katie, this is just beautiful. As someone who lost my father at the age of ten, this is something I always, always think of in my hypochonrdriac brain.

My husband lost his mother as a child also and his sister, who is ten years younger, doesn't even remember her as she was not even two when their mother died.