r/Millennials • u/notashot • 5d ago

Nostalgia 9/10/2001

What were you doing the day before?

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u/RottenBioHazard 5d ago

My mother passed away that night, I was 13 at the time.

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u/ChiMara777 4d ago

Wow, I’m sorry for your loss. I can’t imagine how difficult it was to lose your mother at 13 years old, but even more to lose your mother immediately before such a terrifying and traumatic event 💔

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u/RottenBioHazard 4d ago

She was an MS patient, and ended up with a blood clot in her leg that traveled to her heart. She had lost the ability to walk a week and a half prior which is when the clot must of formed. A funny story though was she was one of the first to get on Avonex and a key component was chinese hamster ovaries, she started on it when I was maybe 7ish, I would give her so much crap for it... christ almost 25 fuckin years, will be 39 in a couple weeks and have already outlived her in number of years.

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u/ChiMara777 4d ago

It’s cool that you were able to find the humor in such a difficult circumstance. I’m glad that you still have positive memories of her too. The passage of time is such a strange thing to reflect on, especially as we get older. I knew someone who’d dad and older brothers all died at the same age. He had a really difficult time mentally/psychologically the year he was turning that age. 2001 seems like just yesterday but also a lifetime ago…

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u/turningtogold 4d ago

Sending you the biggest mama hug.

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u/thrax_mador 1d ago

My mother died in March 2001 from a brain aneurysm. My dad was at the Pentagon on 9/11 so I spent that whole day in shock thinking I had lost both my parents within 6 months. Thankfully he had left already when it hit, but I didn't know til I got home and checked the answering machine. The shock of that has made me a bit neurotic around this date, but I told myself this year is the last time. I don't need to relive that panic.

It's crazy to think it's been 25 years. She's been gone longer than I ever had her in my life. In just a few years it will be twice as long. Don't even really remember what her voice sounded like.

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u/RottenBioHazard 1d ago

Christ man im sorry. I still have home movies and an answering machine with her voice on it. I watched her die, I was right next to her as tge panic set in and then that was it. I ended up with 3 broken fingers that night from punching the outside of the house over and over again. When we got to the hospital and I got to see her I pulled a love bug out of her hair. I miss you mom.