“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.”
‘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’
‘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.”
‘What grade is your son in?’ I replied, ‘My daughter is in 4th.’: Mom encourages authenticity, ‘She is a girl who wants to be herself’
“My daughter is herself, and for now, prefers clothes in the boy’s section at Old Navy.”
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.”
Dear Kind Stranger: Thank You For Soothing A Distraught Stranger On My Flight When Others Judged Her Instead
“As she got closer, I heard passengers comment things like Meth Head, Drug Addict, and Tweeker. Her hands shook along with constant head movement. I could see she was visibly upset, confused and appeared frightened.”
‘I hope you can help me, I was dropped this morning by my little friend and now I’m lost.’
“Please help me find my family…”
‘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.”