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Comment by Semary Rose on November 24, 2011 at 10:57am

I have been MIA for several months.  It started last night.  The tears and emptiness.  Where are you? 

Comment by Heather Dorogi on November 24, 2011 at 7:01am

Happy Thanksgiving to those present and gone before me. Those that are gone too soon and those that are left here to try to figure it all out. I am NOT thankful that I am grieving and sad on this Thanksgiving day without my dad...but I am thankful for the people in my life who have loved, supported, and shown extreme kindness to me in the past few months and continue to help me muddle my way through. 

Comment by anna l. on November 23, 2011 at 5:10pm

Mercy, there is no rule that if you host you have to keep it together all the time.  If you get overwhelmed, or just feel the sadness of missing your love, then go ahead and cry!  I would hope the people you choose to be around you will understand and accept you, grief and all.  When it was Thanksgiving for us, in October, I was not together all the time,but I was better than I thought I would be.  The worry for the week before that I couldnt do it was far worse than the actual day turned out to be.  I hope in the end you can say the same.  Thinking and praying you get through it and come away with new family memories that are precious to you. 

Comment by mercy on November 23, 2011 at 5:00pm

I'm so terrified about tomorrow, I have people coming over over the next couple of days and don't know how to keep it together. I tried not to host anything this season but my family insists on being with me...I feel hurt and misunderstood

Comment by christianlee on November 23, 2011 at 4:15pm

Barbara....nice message you posted. I pray for all of us this holiday season.

Comment by Barbara Santoli on November 23, 2011 at 3:24pm

I wish for all of us a peaceful Thanksgiving. "Happy" does not seem to be a word in my vocabulary these days. Those of us that will experience this holiday for the first time without our loved one will need all of the strength that we can gather. I was so looking forward to this years holiday as it would be the first time that I wasn't working and would have plenty of time to get everything ready. I still have plenty of time but I am missing my husband, my best friend and my reason for being. I finished my tasks for today and now wait for my children and their families to arrive tomorrow. My son just realized that he has to carve the turkey and I'm sure is having a hard time. When they come they will be expecting their father to walk across the yard to their cars and greet like always. He will be with us and he will help us through this. So my wish for all is comfort and peace and the ability to give thanks for all that we still have and all that was before.

Comment by Kandi Broussard on November 21, 2011 at 5:19pm

It's true... it's hard to be "thankful" when your world has been shaken.  This is my 2nd Holiday season without a mom or dad and it is not any easier than last year.  It is made worse by the murder trial being set to take place next Monday... OMG!  How in the world am I going to get through this?  People keep telling me to take it one day at a time as if there were some other way!!

 

Comment by christianlee on November 21, 2011 at 4:54pm

Heather I'm sorry....I share the same feelings...

Comment by Heather Dorogi on November 21, 2011 at 4:49pm

I had never heard of the anxiety syndrome...but then again I had never lost someone so pivotal in my life. My dad dies very tragically and suddenly in an accident on July 25, 2011. He was one week from being 54. My grief was compounded as I had just lost my first pregnancy only 4 weeks before and my dad was the person i relied on. I love my husband but my dad could always make me feel better. Now I was left without a baby and without the one person I needed to just make it through a day. Since then my denial is the only way I seem to get through. I simply cannot be alone...one small moment of thinking leads to absolute fits of grief. I do not want or feel like celebrating the holidays and do not feel thankful, even though I should for all of the other family members I am still blessed to have. They are NOT him...I just want to bury myself for awhile and come back out when it hurts less...

Comment by farida narain on November 20, 2011 at 7:57pm

Hi Sandra,  I do know that with the holidays coming up we all are beginning to get anxiety syndrome.  I do not seem to want holidays anymore.  They bring back so much bitter feelings instead of happy ones.  Holidays or birthdays or Mother or Father days will never, never be the same again.  Losing my child is like part of my soul has been viciously torn away.  We all share the same irreparable loss.  I pray that God will give us strength and courage to carry on.

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