Losing a Step Father

This article is about how I lost a loving step father. His name was Kenny and he was the best.

My mother met him a long time ago and my father had left along time ago and I had never got to see him very much. Kenny took the place of my real dad. He treated me like I was one of his kids. He treated me more like a daughter than my own father did.

Kenny was a very loving man. His heart had artificial valves in them. One day out o the blue he started talking all weird like he was talking giberish. We called the ambulance for him and got him to the hospital and found out he had had a stroke.

They took him into surgery and found that one of his valves to his heart had come loose. They tried to put it back together, but it was too late.

My mother had called from the hospital to my grandmother's house and told me the bad news. I almost died. It hurt so bad to hear that he was gone. Still to this day I get tears in my eyes just thinking about him and what his last words were.

My mother told him that he would have to fight this that he was a fighter. His last words to my mother was "My gloves aren't big enough for this one." Then he was gone.

We held the funeral a couple of days later and I tell you what I barely got through it. The only man that ever treated me like I was one of his own was not here anymore. It took all I had not to lose it in the funeral home.

It is very hard to lose someone so close to you. I visit his grave every chance I get. Seeing as I live right by the cemetary it is not very far for me to go. He had two little kids he left behind as well.

Kenny will always be in my heart and thoughts no matter where I go or what I do. He was my father. The best father anybody could have asked for.

Losing a very dear family member can be real hard on some people. You often sit and think about your life when you lose a family member. Wonder who is going to be the next one you lose. When is it going to be your turn to die?? You think about all that stuff.

I know the sorrow and pain that someone is feeling when they lose a loved one. I bet everyone in the world knows the feeling, but you have to learn from it and move on with your life. If you don't, you will regret it later on in life.