“I felt robbed. I felt like life was working against me in every angle possible. I remember asking myself — why me? Why am I being challenged in this way?”
‘I’m so sorry. It’s bad.’ Woman’s heartbreak as she loses her beloved dog, brother within 10 days
’25 days before the one-year anniversary of my husband’s death, a Facebook memory popped up’
“It slams you back to a time when you knew what was important, and what wasn’t.”
‘On a holiday or any other day, it’s OK not to be OK.’
“Just because something is right this year might not be what is right next year, because as we grow and change in our grief, our lives and our choices will too.”
Mom says she’s had an epidural needle stuck in her spine for 14 years: ‘It’s devastating. It’s absolutely wrong’
“I’ve never seen a piece of needle that’s broken off and left in someone’s spine. Never seen it. Never heard of it. It’s outrageous,” her attorney said.
‘I’m so sorry, it looks like her heart stopped beating close to a week ago’: Woman recounts pain of her miscarriage
“I felt paralyzed. ‘What does that even MEAN?!’ She’s right there in front of me!! She’s inside of me! How DARE you tell me that! She’s RIGHT THERE! I SEE her!!'”
‘There is a fallout from death that extends beyond the first year. Please, don’t forget us in the second.’
“My grief is not gone. My grief did not end when the first 365 days came and went. My grief is still raw. It is still painful. And it is still very present.”
“Please don’t forget to show up when you can, reach out when you have a minute, and sit quietly with us in our grief, even if it’s now different.”
‘If someone was hurting, I couldn’t let it go. It hurt me too’: Mom describes her rare mirror-touch synesthesia condition
“The shift in my brain when I became a mother made ignoring others’ feelings impossible.”
‘I found out I was pregnant 30 minutes before ‘my miracle baby’ was born.’
“He finally started crying, and so did we. That’s when it finally hit me that I was actually in labor and I had just given birth.”
‘We talked about meeting all year. So many feelings were running through me. In a perfect world, they could have both been saved, but that isn’t our story.’
“It was different with them — almost as if he’s known them for ages. We would give anything to have our baby back.”
