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My father did not die, but when I was a very young adolescent, he went in for heart surgery at a time when same was a bit more medically dangerous than nowadays
by MollyRealized 4y ago
My father did not die, but when I was a very young adolescent, he went in for heart surgery at a time when same was a bit more medically dangerous than nowadays. He did survive.
Some years later, when a father and child said goodbye in an "E.R." episode at college, I (to my own surprise) went into near-hysterics and had to call him. 20+ years later, when scrolling through TikTok, someone put a similar scene from "Supernatural" in a video and it shook me hard.
I can definitely sympathize with your friend; in each of those two cases, the reaction proceeded with nearly no cognitive thought or ability to affect it via a thinking process. Trauma is a bit of a puppeteer.
- Ntrails 4y agoI remember watching a terminally ill patient in ER writing letters to his children to open when they reached milestones or after his death. Knowing my father had done the same for me and that connection was brutal, like it floored me. I'd not skip that episode or something like it for having emotional punch though, even knowing I'm probably still just as likely to react strongly.