Tag: loss of a child

• What You Must Know

  I think my last post scared some people….Or made them worry. But here is what you must know….I can’t continue this blog without being perfectly honest, pouring my heart as if I have no audience and working through this nasty business of grief. So let’s get to it. My Auntie Trace sent me this poem…

  Hschichie

  October 20, 2011

  Nitty Gritty Dirty Grief

  loss of a child, mitochondrial disease

• To Remember

  This evening I listened to an interview with a mother who had lost her daughter in Tower 1. Her concern was that as time went on people would forget what happened on 9/11 and people would forget her daughter. I understand this, as time moves forward, I think about Samantha everyday but not everyone does.…

  Hschichie

  September 12, 2011

  Nitty Gritty Dirty Grief

  loss of a child, mitochondrial disease

• What is the Call???

  It would be easy to give up the fight. Because it doesn’t really matter. I don’t have to go to Children’s. Because we don’t have a child who needs to be there. It would be easy to turn our back on our mito cause. Because we no longer have a mito kiddo. What difference can…

  Hschichie

  August 26, 2011

  Nitty Gritty Dirty Grief

  hopeful, loss of a child, mitochondrial disease

• The Path

  You cannot travel the path until you have become the path itself – Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta This week I found myself in Beaver Creek, Long Island Sound, Manhattan, Houston and now I am resting my hat in Santa Fe for the weekend. As I passed from place to place, airport to rental car, ocean…

  Hschichie

  August 20, 2011

  Nitty Gritty Dirty Grief

  healing, loss of a child, Samantha’s mom