"I lost my daughter to leukemia, and the pain changed my life forever. Learning to live with this loss has not been easy, but I chose to turn my grief into something meaningful.
Today, I create oil paintings on canvas of loved ones who have passed…"
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- I have been married to my husband (Josh)for 6 years. A mother of two, my daughter (Gracie) is 6 almost 7 and my son (Vinny)is 5. I am a stay at home mom and I plan on going back to school when my son is in school all day.
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- I have lost 3 special people in the span of 1 year, all very unexpected. My grandmother was first, she died in Dec 09. She was in the hospital, and scheduled to be released the morning before she passed. We still don't know exactly what happened. Then a family friend, who was an uncle to my children and a brother to my husband, Jeremy, died in Oct 10. He made a stupid mistake and took medication while drinking, they mixed and his heart couldn't deal with the reaction. A few months later my mother passed in Dec 10. She was battling arthritis and was taking medications to combate the pain. These meds made her blood pressure go high and low, she was in and out of the hospital trying to get it under control. One day she was tired and layed down on the couch to take a nap, my father was cooking dinner and went to wake her and found her gone. We knew she was sick, but never expected her to be so sick she would die! Needless to say this pass year has been very difficult.
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"I lost my daughter to leukemia, and the pain changed my life forever. Learning to live with this loss has not been easy, but I chose to turn my grief into something meaningful.
Today, I create oil paintings on canvas of loved ones who have passed…"
"I lost my daughter to leukemia, and the pain changed my life forever. Learning to live with this loss has not been easy, but I chose to turn my grief into something meaningful.
Today, I create oil paintings on canvas of loved ones who have passed…"
"I lost my daughter to leukemia, and the pain changed my life forever. Learning to live with this loss has not been easy, but I chose to turn my grief into something meaningful.
Today, I create oil paintings on canvas of loved ones who have passed…"
"I lost my daughter to leukemia, and the pain changed my life forever. Learning to live with this loss has not been easy, but I chose to turn my grief into something meaningful.
Today, I create oil paintings on canvas of loved ones who have passed…"
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Hello Stefanie,
I can understand your feelings. So very very sorry. Have lost my mother and my wife.
My mother got to see Christmas, then passed on 12/30/10. Dad couldn't wake her up.
He said she was talking to her twin sister Tina off and on that night and morning in her sleep, (Tina passed away 10 yrs ago).
Then around 90 some days later, my wife passed away in her sleep from drug toxicity.
I will never get over what she said about 1 week prior to dying, that she had a dream of her sister Jodi (Jodi died 3 years ago), and the dream was very bloody.
We had Christmas Eve at my mom and dad's house.
On Christmas eve my wife sat right next to my Mom and held her hand on the couch.
She has just gotten home from the nursing home just over 1 week at that time. I still can see them two sitting there. I find comfort in the thought that they both comforted each other. It almost makes me think they both knew something. My mother was very bitter toward my wife, but my wife always showed love for my mom.
I have tried attacking this grief, despair, sadness, over-emotional roller coaster ride with many things.
I never took so many long, warm showers in my entire life. Can't even listen to any love songs, (hurt music).
Exercise and positive thinking can help quite a bit, but the human emotional ride (grieving process) is the best way to go! It is all natural, as natural as life, living, dying. The grief is all a part of you, part of me, part of all of us. It just can't be fought, it has to run it's course.
As difficult as things are, please know that we all can, must and will carry on with our lives.
Good luck to you and may all good things come your way!
Bless you!
Michael