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- Time can be an enemy as we all know, as we wait to feel better. It doesn't seem to get any better sometimes.As I look back on my life, I see examples of how time really does work. My grandmother died in 1965, having lost 2 babies (stillborn;...
- This year my grief group that goes out to dinner once a month is having the dinner on Friday, Feb. 15th, the day after Valentine's Day. In order to still celebrate Valentine's Day, I am going to bring some funny kid valentines (like we used to give...
- My exercise is walking. I am 67. My problem is how far to walk? Sometimes after a walk I get tremendous pain and have to stop most all my walking until pain gets down to a tolerable level.My goal is to walk a mile a day. I wear knee braces. ...
- From our collective wisdom, I though it might be a good idea to post some positive self-counseling that we have done for ourselves. Specifically what words of advice do you have for yourself, some words that give us courage, assurance, and...
- I just want to share a very positive experience with you all. Last night our small grief group from church met together (just had our 6-week session ending last Nov.). There are only 8 of us, most of us did not know each other very well. During...
- I never knew arthritis could hurt like H*LL! I always thought arthritis felt like an aching pain, just a bit nagging.In the last few months, both my knees have caused me EXCRUCIATING pain, like knives or needles or walking on broken glass. Today I...
- In my pain over the last 3 years, I have been bitter and angry at people who have not supported me. Mostly ignoring me. In my mind, I have torn them down as being selfish and uncaring. Then I began looking inside my heart. How did I extend myself...
- We are overwhelmed on New Year's by the fact that they are gone. Our whole lives have burned to ashes. The new year.....how should we face it? What do we have to hope for?In the early months I felt dead and hoped I would be dead as soon as...
- Well, it's New Year's Eve. I'm thinking of what progress I have made over the last 3 years. For 3 years I have not cared that my house has not been cleaned much, junk mail has been piled up on the dining room table where no one eats anymore, and...
- I received news yesterday that my brother-in-law died of an apparent heart attack on Christmas Day while hunting with his son. This was my husband's brother. There were 3 children in my husband's family.My Joe had cancer and suffered immeasuraby in...
- I'm 67 now and as I look back over all the Chrismases I've had, there were stages and kinds of celebrations. As a child, we cut down live trees. I remember the magic and excitement and Mama would make cinnamon rolls and fix orange juice.When I was...
- Our bedroom was upstairs. We called our house a treehouse because we are in the woods and the upstairs is all windows just about. When Joe became so sick he could not climb the stairs, we bought a new bedroom set and put it in a downstairs bedroom...
- Well, here it is. The day we all live for when we are married and working. When we are left alone without our spouses, here we sit. It's a Saturday and I have not a thing to do and no one to do it with. I have watched TV until I'm sick of it. ...
- We all know that Christmas will never be the same after we lose our precious spouses. We have to make different plans now even though our hearts ache to have a Christmas like we always did when they were still with us. But they are not.My son and...
- Well, we all made it through Thanksgiving in whatever shape we were in. My dysfunctional family had split activities according to whoever was talking to whoever. My daughter (who is estranged from me since June) invited my sister for Thanksgiving....