March 27, 2013
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bad luck ensues
It seems like our family JUST can’t get a break.
At the beginning of this year, as you all know, my mother was diagnosed with acute leukaemia, then her car (they my dad and uncle had been driving around my aunty to and from the hospital to visit my mum) started having engine issues- $300 just went down the gurgler.
Not long after, we found out that our 11 year pomeranian had a skin tumor- skin cancer of some kind. The family decision was that we would let the dog live out the rest of his days until- if and when the cancer took hold and he could no longer enjoy life would we put him down…
and today- my dad’s car decided that it too will no longer work. There is something wrong with the gearbox, it takes an awfully long time for it to “rev” up to the specified km’s. The car apparently just made it home. My dad’s pretty shattered considering that it was his pride and joy- probably the one car where he’s taken pretty good care of it. However- this is the year that it’s decided that it no longer wants to co-operate.
My dad’s made a decision that if it costs anywhere up to 2K or over, then it will go to the scrap heap- being that it’s a 1997 BMW 5 series, it is- pretty old now… it’s done well but heck- it’s failed at the worst of times.
Speaking to my dad before- he’s a broken man. On top of the crappy car no longer wanting to work- lately my mum hasn’t been doing to well, she’s unable to hold down any food and keeps throwing everything up. She was supposed to go home at the beginning of the week, but it looks like she will spend Easter in hospital.
It seems like, this is a never ending battle of constant bad luck.
I don’t know how much more we can all take before someone has a crazy mental breakdown.
It is, getting, a little, too much.
Give us a break… please
