Widows & Widowers Support Group
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I beleive in signs, have always have. My husband was never a believer, used to tell me it was hocus pocus. I rememer this dog we had, it was one of the best loving dogs we ever owned. He passed away in my bed. There were times at night I would feel the bed slightly move and pressure where he like to lie but when I turned on the light there would be nothing there. I would also sometimes just see flashes of a small shadow running by. I also thought it was his soul. It never scared me but suprized me at times. My husband died four months ago in our home. I know I sense him here. The house is in disarray as we are getting ready to list it so I have had painters and new carpert being put in. Yesterday was such a stressful day, had tons of things to do. I felt him when I was getting ready and from the corner of my eye I saw a shadow walk by twice. I was walking to the store and thinking how am I ever going to get past this all. Something caught my eye, it was a penny. I picked it up and found like 5 more on the way to the store. The final one was when I took the kids out to lunch. We were talking about the move, we are moving 3,000 miles to live by my family- we have no one here. I feel bad that the boys are having to leave their friends and everything they know. This was an important conversations as I got the date for the closing and I was giving them a schedule of the move. My sons started telling me how happy they were that the my whole family was so excited we were moving. They have been getting texts from their cousins and my siblings. They were looking forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas because they liked the idea of the whole family getting togather and they grew up only with having holdiays with me and husband. I was so happy, in my head I was talking to my husband as I always do. I just remember telling me I hoped he was happy about the move too. From the resturant to the my car I looked down and found 3 shiney dimes. In my heart I knew it was my husband sending me a sign. I am sure many of you just think it might have been someone with a hole in their pocket who lost some change, that is what my husband would have said but for me it was so much more. Please let me know if anyone has similar stories. Our loved ones are gone but not forgotten.
My grandson was born three weeks ago. Mixed in with the joy was the sorrow that my husband will never know his grandchild. When I was saw the baby for the very first time, my cell phone started ringing. The caller was from the phone number 0000000000. I really felt that was Steve's way of letting me know that he could see our grandson.
A week later I got a phone call at midnight that my beautiful grandson was hospitalized with meningitis. It was probably the worst weekend of my life.....................that is a completely different experience than knowing that your spouse is seriously ill. But it would have been a thousand times worse if I hadn't gotten that mysterious phone call a week earlier. Somehow, I felt that no matter what happened, Steve would be with our grandchild.
The little guy is eating and alert and showing every sign of a full recovery and might even be released from the hospital next week!
So, yes, Avmom, I believe that your husband was sending you a sign.