“I laid there and sobbed, how could it have come back normal? After hearing enough doctors downplay my symptoms, watching them roll their eyes as they told me it was ‘just gas,’ I stopped telling anyone how miserable I was.”
- Love What Matters
- Grief
“I laid there and sobbed, how could it have come back normal? After hearing enough doctors downplay my symptoms, watching them roll their eyes as they told me it was ‘just gas,’ I stopped telling anyone how miserable I was.”
“This man, carrying a canoe paddle, yelled and threatened to call the police, and then took down my brother’s license plate number. I don’t know if that was why Adam felt the need to go to the door or not, but he did. Wrong place, wrong time.”
“Getting rid of anything he had a hand in giving them seems impossible. It’s like little by little, the things he was a part of die slowly over the years, and I don’t want to aide in that disappearance. Every time I look at it, I think about my dad.”
“I was in disbelief. I thought he would be taken away from me like the girls were. I didn’t want to get attached. Even with a giant belly at 38 weeks, seeing him move wasn’t enough for me to believe. I wanted to protect myself and prepare for the worst.”
“I woke up to hear him gasping. ‘Is this actually happening?’ My husband was only 41 years old and very healthy. He had just passed his physical a month prior with flying colors.”
“No matter how long you’ve known that final goodbye was coming, you’ll never be ready.”
“My son died of the flu in only 48 hours, on Christmas Day. I delayed my child’s flu shot for a wellness visit after the holidays. Leon never made it to that appointment.”
“‘She wants to hang out with me like every day.’ That’s the last sentence I said before the phone call that changed my life, and broke my heart.”
“It was one of the most touching things I’ve seen in all my years working in retail.”
“After years of infertility, my husband and I were ecstatic to be expecting triplets. But, the pregnancy bliss was shattered when I went into labor at 22 weeks gestation.”