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While Dina only died in April of this year this is the second Christmas we are celebrating without her. That really sucks to think about. Last year she was 10 days removed from very nearly dying...

12/15/2012. The day my life really changed. One year ago today. It was a Saturday. Dina had been back in the hospital one day shy of a week at this point. Getting the fluid accumulation under control...

I just realized that one year ago today was the last time I heard Dinas voice as I knew it. A year ago tomorrow all hell broke loose. From that point until her death in April she was either on a...

12/9/2012. One year ago today. It was a Sunday. Dina had been struggling with fluid accumulation yet again the previous few days. She had an appointment with her cardiologist scheduled for that...

11/30/2012. This was the last time Dina and I went on a date. It was a Friday evening. Dinas recovery from heart surgery was going about as expected. We had been out and about doing normal stuff...

11/21/2012. One year ago today, which was the day before Thanksgiving, Dina went and got ‘tapped’ for the first time. She had been home after heart surgery for about 2.5 weeks at that point....

A year ago (16 days after being admitted and 12 days after her heart surgery) Dina came home from the hospital.  It was a stressful but happy day.  I made lots of trips to the pharmacy to get all...

1 year ago Dina underwent her heart surgery to replace her mitral valve. The valve was damaged due to radiation as a child and it had gotten worse over the past few years. We knew it needed to be...

Friday marked 6 months since Dina has died. This is mind blowing. She has now been gone 2 months longer than she was in the hospital, which seems impossible. Life has not been remotely the same since...

I'm not sure how it came up tonight but Hannah was talking about Dina in the hospital.  She said something about the big bed that Mommy had.  I tried to put a positive spin on that memory, as I...

A song I had on the playlist I played for Dina in the hospital just came on the radio and made me think of the 4 months Dina was hospitalized before her death, as many things do.  This time,...

I cannot say enough about my daughter.  And here is another reason why...One of the nurses from the RACU (the respiratory unit Dina was on) emailed me last week.  I think she was on more at night...

Yesterday my daughter and I came home from our first vacation without Dina.  We spent the week down Cape Cod.  A brother of my soon to be sister-in-law let me use the vacation rental home he owns...

I just finished putting my 3 year old to bed.  As I was leaving she asked why Mama died, which isn't an uncommon question.  I sat down and explained to her again that Mama got very, very, very sick...

Yesterday would have been our 6th wedding anniversary.  We were supposed to (hopefully) be coming home from Stowe today.  This was a trip I had booked for November as a surprise but had to push...