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CONFESSIONS OF A LIKELY WIDOW

A Young Widow's Reflections on Chronic Illness, Loss, Grief and Faith

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Being a Caretaker

G's aunt has been suddenly thrust into the caretaking role after her partner went from healthy to terminally ill (aggressive brain...

Chronic Illness is a Thief

G was chronically ill for over a decade. Really, starting in 2008 we began dealing with quickly worsening, scary health situations. He...

Rough Day

Today was rough. So many emotions. So tired of everything and every day being so hard. It hit me at the cardiologist this morning that I...

DNA

Tomorrow the DNA test kit should arrive. It's a 50% chance that P inherited ARVD/C from G - the genetic condition that caused his first...

What is a Tragedy?

Is G's life a tragedy? His story is one of abuse as a young child by the very people who should've protected him. Of painful years of...

Celebrating G

I've been having this really strong need to celebrate G lately. I think part of it comes from looking at old pictures. I've found...

A Severe Mercy

My counselor reminded me yet again that G's death was a severe mercy. In my grief and longing to see him again, it's easy to forget just...

Shaky Hands

This morning I was reading my devotional off my phone and I noticed that my left hand was shaking. It felt really odd and uncomfortable....

2 Months

Today is the 2 month anniversary of G's death. Yesterday I finally was able to back through some of the emails that were sent between me...

Burning in My Chest

Every night I look at pictures. Starting in 2007 (the ones on this computer), I've been going through - adding them to special memory...

One Month

This morning is one month since G died. One month since I woke up to find he was already awake - he was having such trouble sleeping...

Numb

I feel numb today. I wake up in the morning and as I try to wrap my head around the day - what day is it, what comes next, what do I...

It happened

What day is today? Where am I? Is this really happening? He died on December 19th. At home, while I watched. So much to process there....

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