Category: Nitty Gritty Dirty Grief
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For the Love
When we lost Samantha, her Grandpa Jim confessed something…. “You know what I will miss?” he said, “I will miss nights in the hospital with you all. Not when she was really sick, but when she was better, when we knew you would get discharged and we all just hung out in that little room…
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Pink
18 months ago we started a small non-profit in memory of our daughter. As we planned our marketing strategy, we joked that we were ‘No Susan G. Komen‘ and someday hoped that we would be. Today, I’m not so sure. Today, I think there might be something nice about being tiny and slightly obscure and…
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Judgey Judgerson
Call me Judgey Judgerson. My post last week was comparing my grief to someone else’s grief. Perhaps that was poor form. Last week, a dear friend of mine had come home from Germany because her father had passed away after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. While my friend was away taking care of her family,…
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Lunchtime Topics
Today I was at a business lunch. The woman we were meeting with was grieving the loss of her 14 year old lab-husky mix. She talked openly about her loss with tears in her eyes. “I miss him so much. He was my baby. Losing him was like losing my child.”The words hung in the…
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Expectations
Last Monday was my birthday. “41, life’s just begun,” ….this is what my husband has claimed as my mantra. It’s a good mantra but at 41, I feel I have lived quite a lot of life. We drove to Fort Collins for a fancy birthday dinner. On the way over, my husband asked if I…
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