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Tunnel of Torment

Since you left I have found myself in what can only be described as a pure tunnel of torment. Sorrow has become my soul mate. Pain a new companion. Fear my unpredictable friend. As for grief, I’m not sure what to make of it this very minute. It’s a menace, the imaginary gun to my head. Life and living is compromised. My brain is up to its old tricks. I search for your face on every street and scan the crowds. A record of you exists. I have it on repeat. It plays on my mind. The body surely speaks, […]

sudden death

I am writting hoping to get some help 4 month ago my son passed away suddenly at 29 years of age the dr had over prescibed his methodone i am having days when I cry as though I have been cut in half and not sleeping feeling like I dont want to be here anymore people say you have 2 other children but this doesnt ease ones grieve as I dont even know how to help them let alone myself some days I work work work until I drop then break down again all over I just cant except he […]

my baby boy’s death

I wish no mother would ever have to go through what did . I lost my baby boy age 15 minuits old on the 4th december 2007 at u-h-w hospital in cardiff it was the worst day of my life he had spinabifida and hydrocephuls . He was the most beautyfulest baby u could of ever seen. he would have beein three on 4th december just gone . And it is very hard with out him but do u no what makes it even hard is that his proper due date was christmas day . I really dont no how […]

my mother’s deth

i am 35 years old, till my childhood my only gurdain,friend & welwisher was my mother. she blindly love me & always support me in my all works., if anything going wrong with me, ma try to save me & inspire me to overcame this. she was a lovely & joyfull lady. life give her all worst sitution but she never loose her mind & always giving her best effort to me. on feb 3 2011 i lost my mother on sudden. i am now in a depressed. i wish ma call me in her place. oh god how you […]

My children, Paul & Alexa (2/28/10)

Valentines Day, Loss and Hope Since I was 7 years old, Valentines Day has been the anniversary for my sister Amy Beth. Amy was born on that day in 1971. She was as normal as her four older brothers and sisters, yet she cried all the time and sharing a bedroom, my living baby doll taught me how to rub someone’s back at a young age. June 9, 1971 she stopped crying. This was before the ambulances came to your home and in a time when one car to each household was commonplace. The doctors called it SIDS. My daughter […]

my wife and kidney disease

My wife was the kindest person i ever fell in love with, she would help a person even when she was in pain herself, she loved to cook and she would cook for friends neighbors strangers that was sick or needed a hand. my wife had kidney disease and was on dialysis 3 times a week she was so sick afterwards that she could not walk to the car i had to wheel her out and help her to bed but on days where she felt a little better she wanted to cook for people she would see recipes on […]

My eldest son gone to soon.

My son passed away 9 months ago he was 23 yrs old. I miss him so much my pain is still so raw. I am a strong woman and I have stayed strong for my husband and two other sons. I have now been in survival mode for the past nine months. My youngest son went into a downward spiral of depression and started rebelling and making very poor choices. So I found myself putting whatever energy I could muster into helping him deal with his pain. My middle son left for college in Aug….and I had to support it […]

g in training

my boyfriend and i lived together for a year but we went on a break a week before he passed and he moved home. he and i were unseparable. from the day i met him we talked or saw eachother everyday. the last week he n i werent together everyday last time we talked was 4 in the morning, i was mad he hadnt seen me, he kept saying he was so tired and hed come over in the morning.I made him promise because i missed him, he worked the grave yard shift at a grocery store. 8 the next […]

just the two of us. me and mum

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IN MEMORY OF MY SON

IN MEMORY OF MY SON By Kelly Crawley On Jan.30, 2007, around 7:00pm, my family and I were driving home from my mother- in -law’s house. We were on a back road out in the country about a mile and a half from our home. I was looking around for deer. Then, all of the sudden, I heard my husband say, “Hang on!”, so I put my arms around my son and hung on tight. He was sitting by the door. My husband lost control of our truck and it started to go on its side. Then it started to […]

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