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wow my emotions are so all-over-the-place right now. One minute I'm ok, happy, joking and then WHAM! the pain and sorrow hits me then after a brief cry I'm ok again. It's almost like hormone mood swings in pregnancy. It's coming up on five months since she died. Did anybody else go through this?
I have read all your comments this morning and I see how different we are and yet we're also the same. I honestly can't always remember the facts of each child and sometimes I go to your homepage and review. Karen, I went to yours this morning, but it's set to private. I know that you are thinking about the 19th and probably remembering that day more now. I'm also sorry for the way his school ignored him. I understand your extra pain as I went through it this summer. First his birthday, then his anniversary. It does suck. One day that used to be joyful is now just as bad as this new date I've had to add to my life.
As I read of your losses and your pain and I relate to it so well, I am also having some feelings of guilt because I believe I had my son the longest. I can't imagine how much harder it might have been if I had lost him at such an early age. Would my grief be any different? And yet, I also think on the other hand that I have extra sorrow because I have his daughter now and have been watching all the things she has started to do since he's been gone. Learning to talk, to go potty, starting preschool. And it always makes me think of what he's missing. And she still misses him and wants him even though now she will say her daddy is in heaven, she still believes he is coming back. I'm so stressed this week because Sunday is her birthday. She will be 3 and we have to have a party for her, but I don't want to. To see a toddler in grief is unreal and so unfair. They just don't have the understanding of death. We do, as adults, understand and look how it affects us. I just can't imagine what she feels and it hurts when she asks for him. When she was born, I was so proud of how he was such a hands on dad. Now I wish he hadn't been. Maybe their bond wouldn't have been so strong. Sorry, I'm just venting all my thoughts this morning. Another morning when I feel like I can't shut my mind and my tears off. Thank you all for sharing, for being here, for your good thoughts. I pray for your comfort as well. <3
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