“With her nice LV purse, iPhone X in hand, big rocks on her fingers and wrists, nice shoes (you get the picture), she said loudly enough for everyone in line to hear, ‘Of course she’s paying with food stamps.’”
It’s Time To Stop Shaming Struggling Families For Using Food Stamps
‘I heard the devastating words, ‘There’s nothing there.’ There was no heartbeat anymore.’: Woman urges ‘second opinion’ after ultrasound mistake
“My body still felt pregnant even though I had already been bleeding, and I just felt weird. I decided to call my good friend who works at another OBGYN. The next day they told me I needed to come in right away for an ultrasound because my pregnancy levels came back at 30,000. They didn’t know if there was a twin, a pregnancy located somewhere else, or what it was.”
‘Are you bleeding? Do you need to go to the hospital? Okay then, get up and stop whining.’: Daughter serves mom a dose of her own medicine, admits ‘it was the wakeup call I needed’
“My world came to a crashing halt. Did she just use my own phrase against me? It stopped me in my tracks. She was right, after all. I was being so mean to them and I never realized it.”
‘She handed him over to me, barely looking up. She knew I was coming, aware she would leave the hospital empty handed.’: Mom shares reality of foster care and adoption
“When I walked in, she began to cry. The cry of a child, just 18, who was losing something she wanted.”
‘He didn’t like being at the hospital overnight, and that we didn’t bring mom to see him.’
“Mom was sitting next to dad rubbing his head. He was dozing off. Every time he was almost asleep she would say, ‘Are you tired Carl?’ and he would wake up and say, ‘Yep.’ He didn’t seem frustrated by her interruptions – for him, it was just another day.”
My Grief Will Never Be ‘Too Much’
“Imagine someone coming along and telling you how you are just ‘too much’ into grief, missing your mom just a little ‘too much.’ I mean, it’s been 7 years; you should be used to it by now.”
‘She told me they were doing more tests to confirm, it was up to me if I wanted to tell him or not. Wait, what? You want me to tell him?’
“You want ME to tell him he has a terminal disease? I’m barely holding it together as it is, and I am supposed to sit with him and lie and pretend like I don’t know he’s dying?”
‘They had the happiest relationship until recently when she randomly asked to go to therapy.’: Woman recounts friends relationship struggles
“Things were not working out and I could see that Steven was hurt because he loved Monica so much, she does everything for him, caters to his every need and he appreciates it, but he fears she doesn’t know it.”
‘I was pregnant with triplets, until I started to bleed. Things went from 0 to 60 in the matter of an hour.’: Mom loses all 3 triplets, gives birth to ‘rainbow baby’ and adopts ‘sweet, perfect’ boy
“The nurses assured me it must’ve been an accident since I had no pain. I listened and didn’t think anything of it. Huge mistake. Not 24 even hours later, I was delirious with a fever and untreated ruptured sac. Once again, alone at the hospital, I had to deliver my babies and say goodbye. I lost not one, but all three of my triplets.”
‘They are the moms of college kids. Shopping carts full of bedding, towels and mini-refrigerators. Slightly stressed, a little irritated, with just a hint of sadness in their eyes.’
“This time of year gets overwhelming. I might be frazzled. But from the aisles of Target, I can tell I am not alone in this. This stage of life is not for the weak.”