This is where it hurts the most, when I've finished work and I'm sat in the bath. This is my quiet space, where I'm alone and peaceful or as least as best I can be. Funny how hot water relaxes my muscles but my head is still strong and unrelenting in letting me know you aren't with me anymore.
There's so much I want to say and so much I want to do, necromancy is an option but I'm too much of a wuss to be raising anyone from the dead, never mind you.
I feel like I need to say sorry, I'm sorry I didn't see you as often, I'm sorry I didn't know just how bad you were living after grandma died and even before that. I'm sorry that I never really got to sit and talk to you properly about your life choices or made more of an effort to help you change.
I'm sorry I pulled away from you the older I got and that I never stayed as often as I could. I'm sorry that I asked to move away from Newcastle or that I had a life in Hartlepool.
I'm sorry I didn't pay enough attention to you, that I grew up too fast. I'm sorry for every bad word or action I've ever taken or said against you. I'm sorry for everything but my biggest regrets are not telling you about my baby.
I regret not telling you I was pregnant last year, When Courtney told you I was when I visited you for a joke, she was telling the truth only we never knew it at that point. On the 25 of may I found out I was 4 weeks pregnant and I was so excited to tell you, I was buzzing but things didn't work out between myself and my mental health, josh and I were at breaking point and I was close to doing something stupid, mams cancer was still making its appearance and she was still growing her hair back, she was struggling with the effects of chemo and radiotherapy.
Everything that was going on led me to make a tough decision, I had an abortion and the worst part was I thought I was over it two weeks later. I wasn't.
The baby fell out of me weeks after the procedure, it had held on. Chunk had fought so hard and it broke my heart when I picked it up and it fit in the palm of my hand. That was my baby and your grandbaby. I was too heartbroken to tell you, too ashamed of what I did and couldn't handle how you would take it.
I regret not telling you, keeping you informed because you had a right to know. I also regret when you were in the hospital, your last few weeks when I visited you constantly.
I hate that you weren't there, you were there in body but not in spirit. The day you came out of your coma I was there, you squeezed my hand and opened your eyes and I thought there was hope. When you tried to speak but couldn't I was there with Courtney and mam. When you tried to hold my hand or write stuff down, when you tried to say "whey aye" and later "love you too". Every time you smiled I was there, every time you needed something I tried. Every time I sat by your bedside and watched you struggle to breathe, unable to talk or function without these machines and wires. I cried every time.
I begged you, dad. I begged you to fight, to cough and push the pneumonia out of your system. I begged you to keep going and get better. I exhausted every ounce of strength and energy trying to make sure you were better and that you knew I was there.
From the moment you called me from your first ward I knew, I knew you were saying goodbye. From the scattered inboxes and misspelt "love you girls" I knew you were saying goodbye. I told myself you were on high dosages of morphine but I knew.
I regret knowing you tried hard to fight for us but it wasn't hard enough, I regret I had to plan and attend your funeral, you were only 55. I regret I had to use my wedding song for your funeral, Stand By Me by Elvis. That was our song, our dance. I regret that you left us this early, that I couldn't make you see we were worth pushing for.
I know you think that because I've got mam I would be okay but I'm not. I'm not okay because you aren't a phone call away anymore. You aren't posting on Facebook or going to the shop, you've gone forever now. I thought I'd have at least another ten years with you.
But in a sick, twisted way you did get to hold your first grandchild. I know right now you're cradling little chunk like he is me.
I know you didn't know you were going to pass but I hope you realise just how much we love and miss you, mam was ready to marry you you know. She said if you pulled through you'd come back home with us but I guess you didn't believe her.
I love you dad, I can't get over the heart ache I feel, in the space of two years I lost you, grandma, a baby and dealt with mam and aunty Betty going through cancer. I dealt with my own mental breakdown and I've had a full nervous breakdown now. I don't think I can handle much more pain, if God sees you, ask him to give me a break please because I'm scared anything else will be my last push over the edge.
If things keep going the way they are and things keep happening to the people I love then I will be the next to go.
I miss you so fucking much.