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Friends Who Are More Like Family

Well surgery is over and before my husband was even rolled to recovery my brother in law got up and was gone. So he got there after surgery started and left before he woke up from surgery so what was the purpose of him being there? He did not talk to me really so why exactly did he come?

When my husband was in the hospital recovering his one remaining kidney started to go into shock and so they kept him in the hospital for 2 full weeks. My sister in law came by for a few visits and called a couple of times. Not once did my brother in law come and visit his brother. He called maybe once or twice. We asked that his parents stay away because his dad is going through cancer treatment and hospitals are full of all sorts of illnesses.

I just don’t understand why my in laws don’t have the same sense of family as I do. It is just so hard for me to understand. My sister pinched a nerve in her back and is having an MRI done in a few days and we are calling to see how she is doing on pain, to see if she needs anything from us even though we just got out of the hospital. This is how we are, when a family member or friend is hurt, sick or in the hospital we call and ask about them, we visit them and ask the family members that are home if they need any help. His family does not really do that so well.

We have some friends of ours that we met through our daughter and they have called at least every other day checking on him, offered to bring us dinner and yesterday brought by bags and bags of groceries for us so we would not have to worry about it and just relax as a family. These friends are acting more like family than my husband’s actual family. Does that make any sense to anyone?

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About Tammy Woolard

My name is Tammy and I am 40 year old mother of 3 wonderful children who came to us through domestic adoption. Although we did not have any fertility issues we chose adoption because there are so many kids that did not ask to be born but truly want a family to love. We did research on adoption choices and decided on domestic adoption through CPS. You would be surprised the differences between each agency. The adoption process is nothing like you see in the movies. I am also a 5 year breast cancer survivor. When I was diagnosed my kids were 3, 5 and 7 I did so much research I may have driven my Dr. a little crazy but that is ok it is my body not his.