“After graduating, I packed my bags and headed to college. There, I found a college meal card, 24-hour Dominos delivery, and a party lifestyle. What I didn’t find? My running shoes. Lack of activity, poor food choices, and a very skinny ‘eats anything he wants’ college boyfriend created the perfect storm. I’d gone from heavy to morbidly obese.”
“She’d been taken in for emergency surgery. The bleeding seemed to have slowed, but they still hadn’t found the source. ‘She’s losing too much blood and I don’t think she’s going to make it.’ But she wasn’t gone…there was still hope. The next time the doctor came in, all hope was lost.”
“I remember holding her hand as she took her last breaths and giving her hugs. Our wedding day was made even more special because I was able to wear my grandma’s wedding dress she wore 60 years prior.”
“My arms weren’t doing what I wanted them to. They felt clumsy and my thoughts seemed to be in slow motion. The next thing I knew, I was collapsing onto the floor of my closet.”
“My parents took our dog on a road trip, and stopped in every state to mark his journey!”
“There is no way you can prepare yourself to bury your child. We both were trying to keep it together, but it was obvious we were falling apart.”
“No matter how many bad days I have without you in my arms, it is another day closer to being together again.”
“Our relationship started off tense, territorial, and hard. She accused me of everything and I thought nothing of her. But I realized, she is not my enemy. Her addiction is.”
“I was in the bathroom. She didn’t know where I was. She went outside into the yard looking for me.”
“Today we woke up happy. As I drove to work we were chatting and somehow one of us took something the wrong way. We barely spoke all day and then the same thing happened later in the afternoon.”
