I've had so many traumatic experiences that it's impossible to list them all. So, I'll list the more salient ones.
1. Was when my beloved dog died. I had little to no love as a child certainly none from my mother who seemed to hate me;
2. My mother divorced my father which was bad enough but then she remarried a horrible man whom I never met until she brought him home and announced their marriage. He then ordered that I would be ripped from my hometown where I had everything a boy could want. Her husband, Tom as a high school PE teacher and very fit. My brother and I had a snowball fight with him when I was 11 and my brother was 7 or 8. He made up an ice ball and through it hard at my little brother smashing a finger and sending him to the hospital. My mother got pregnant by him and had a miscarriage followed by a hysterectomy shortly before divorcing him after he made my mother pay his way through insurance school. When we moved from our home in Oswego, we bought a really junkie house in Portland. We were awakened one night by a man he knew who was angry and had a knife. They fought all over the house finally beating the assailant;
3. I got drafted into the Army out of college and went to war where people tried to kill me during the Tet offensive;
4. My father, who had recently changed from a man I feared because of beatings he gave me as a child, to a loving father who apologized for all his transgressions, died in a fishing accident while my brother watched helplessly;
5. I married a woman who was an ex topless dancer. My first love. I caught her bringing multiple men home whenever I was gone. Nearly killed one guy. We had a stormy divorce. I still pine over the deep love I gave her including singing to her as she hung out her dormitory window. This should have gone to someone who cared;
6. I got demoted at Tektronix by an asshole boss. I was convenient to demote so he set me up by lying. In a private meeting he said I shouldn't even try to appeal because he would deny it and win so I quit the company;
7. My mother finally married a good man whom I grew to love. He even adopted me and my brother. He died in my arms. Later, while going through his papers I found a rough draft of a will that was extremely negative of me and it broke my heart;
8. My mother then inherited everything from my new father and invited me to a reading of her new will which cut my inheritance in half;
9. My mother-in-law who had lived with me and my wife for ten years died in my arms. I gave her CPR but it was hopeless;
10. My brother died of cancer while spitting up blood and in my arms.
11. My mother then became so unloving that she started telling people all over Seaside how horrible I was. When I found out we became estranged.
12. A doctor had declared my mother died with dementia and her will went from an original of $3.7 Million and growing to $50,000 for me. She left more to each of two people, one my cousin, a drug using chain smoking, pornography addict who spent 6 months in jail until my mother bailed him out, and a man who is an ex convict and con man who was convicted of raping his daughter, than she left to me. The rest was left to strangers and shirttail relatives who are no good. All that she had promised me since I was 9 years old she left to others including old photos of me and memorabilia of my natural father and brother;
13. Then the VA gave me the wrong insulin resulting in the eventual loss of my kidneys which resulted in a life long condemnation of the hell that is hemodialysis. To add insult to injury the VA has said I am not eligible for a kidney transplant.
Okay, your turn.
