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Comment by Debi M on November 27, 2013 at 8:09am

I just wanted to say hi. I've been lurking for quite awhile, not able to really add anything to any conversation. My 30 year old son died suddenly on August 6th of bacterial meningitis. It's still a shock. He leaves behind his wonderful wife, twin girls who will be 2 soon and an infant son. The loss is beyond words. I just wanted all of you to know that I have been reading the posts and praying for us all. Everything you all say is what I want to say. The holidays are going to be unbearable. I take my strength from all of you. I wish us all peace.

Comment by Dolly on November 27, 2013 at 7:52am

Teresa they sent me back the rough draft of the article being written about our family for the CAP book.. she did an amazing joy with the disjointed babbling I did over the phone... we had both been overwhelmed with anxiety just before she called on the day she took down the information for the article, and I couldn't stop talking and must have sounded like a lunatic, but she was able to pull it together somehow... I have to tweak it a bit because we sound better than we are... not sure how to express it, except we are just folks... folks with a love for this population, but we're not special.... I'm always frustrated when people say that we're special because I know we aren't.. I know all the skeletons.... but most of what she said is right on the money .. I'll tackle the changes after Thanksgiving... she's going to have a baby anytime so wants it done...

Comment by Teresa D. on November 27, 2013 at 6:10am

I don't have anything to say today, I'm just here.

Comment by Adrianne Edgerly on November 27, 2013 at 1:13am

Ammy
I agree. Been silent also. I think a few of us have. For the same reasons.

Comment by Ammy on November 26, 2013 at 5:53pm

Checking in also.  Tough week isn't it?  

It does surprise me how so many memories come flooding back around holidays.  

I really don't want to have the family get together, but feel I have to.  Sometimes I wish I could just be selfish and say no.  I wonder if anyone thinks about how I feel and how hard it is for me preparing for these family functions.  It's always the before that's the hardest part for me.  Once they get here I usually get distracted for most of the time.

Anyone else have these problems?  Found any solutions?  Anne?

As bad as I've been feeling lately my heart still aches for all of you as I read your comments filled with pain, and I'm also happy for you that are having some good things going on in their lives.  

Teresa, I loved your positive post on what you are thankful for.  Thanks for sharing it.

Sending blessings of peace & love.  I pray we all will find something to be thankful for and that it will help lighten our mood.

Comment by Teresa D. on November 26, 2013 at 5:48am

Lynn, some will do that to you.  They don't know how to deal with you or they don't want to be you. I'm sorry she hurt you but she's not worth being in your life. 

Comment by Connie K on November 25, 2013 at 11:05am

Lynn I'm so sorry your friend treated you that way. My thoughts and prayers are with you. But these are the times when we find out who our real friends are. Whatever is going on with her has nothing to do with you. She is just not in a place to help you and it sounds like you have real true friends who are there for you which is such a blessing. I'm running off to work but will message you later.

Comment by Connie K on November 25, 2013 at 11:00am

That is beautiful Teresa, Vasanthi thank you for your lovely words. I hope you have a wonderful and safe trip.  Sunday will the 1 year anniversary of Daniel's passing and it's a tough one. But we will celebrate his life and his friends said they were all coming over (whether we wanted them to or not they said- lol) I miss them all lighting up the house with their laughter and antics. I can't believe it's been a year. Time seems to have stood still for me.

I hope everyone here has a good and peaceful Thanksgiving holiday, as best you can.

Comment by Lynn Williams on November 25, 2013 at 10:53am

My time stands still and yet moves so fast when you are grieving.  It is over three months since I last saw my daughter on the day she died.  I am thankful for my kind friends in Vermont who support me and keep me close in their lives and I am thankful for everyone on this site who gives me hope that I will make it through another day of heartbreak and feel some thing other than pain again in my life. Last Thursday a women I had worked with for 11 years and also retired with me last June tossed me to the curb, telling me we were just work friends.  I was crying on the phone with her before I could hang up .  She said we traveled in different circles and our lives were in different places. (meaning my daughter died and her's didn't).  It is hard to discover how cruel and self centered some people can be.  Everyone around me could never understand why I ever hung out with her at school and now I understand why they felt this way about her.  I can't remember a time in my life when I felt this vulnerable and I thank you all for being here for me. 

Comment by Vasanthi S on November 25, 2013 at 7:05am

Teresa that is lovely. Dolly saw older messages and felt so warm just reading themand oh would love to be enveloped in that kind of welcoming warmth.. thanks for being there.. Connie, I read what you wrote about being psychic and having conversations with Jesus.. I am truly in awe of your abilities..it is a rare gift and you are so so blessed as are we to have you among us..I know you use these gifts with discretion and Vedanta will crystallize so many events and give it the correct objectivity needed.. am thinking of all of you , Michelle, Anne,Dawn,Brenda, Dennis,Grace, Jane,Berna and keeping you all close and wrapped in thoughts which want for us to feel the warmth and love of true belonging with our children and others in the world... will be a busy day again and tomorrow early morning we leave for Nashville till Saturday.. Dolly , its 500 miles away but can you please message me your number? Maybe enroute we can meet half way etc mine is +19787272073.. would welcome any messages  from any of my friends here and I will respond asap ..xoxoxoxoxo

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