I’m 28. My parents are honestly my best friends. I’m my dad’s girl, his everything. I live with them currently and have my whole life except when I was in college. Now they’re 64 and 66 and they’re in great health, they have great genes (parents living in their 90s) but it absolutely terrifies me that one day I’ll have to face losing them. A couple nights ago on vacation with them, my mom had an incident while in the shower and fell and passed out, came to, passed out and threw up.. we called the ambulance because we didn’t know what was going on and were terrified. My mom was taken to the ER and it was the first time ever I saw my dad cry. Just seeing the pain and worry in his face while she was being put in the ambulance was heartbreaking. He thought she had a heart attack or stroke. We spent the night in the hospital and I guess it was just the heat from the shower and electrolyte imbalance and low blood pressure and lack of hydration, it made her pass out. So we just got home today and for the first time since it happened I’ve been crying, all day. I can’t stop. The thought of one of them losing the other when they’re each other’s best friend absolutely depresses me as well as me having to live without them one day. I have memories with them growing up and now that are so beautiful and it pains me so much I can’t ever get that time back. I don’t know what to do right now to cope with this feeling. Does anyone have advice?
Terrified and depressed over thoughts of my parents dying after an scary incident 2 nights ago. How do I cope?
