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Tags: grief, hope, Multiple Deaths, radio
Dr. Gloria and Dr. Heidi Horsley
Dr. Gloria Horsley and Dr. Heidi Horsley are a mother/daughter team and internationally recognized grief experts. They are the founders of The Open to Hope Foundation and the hosts of The Open to Hope Show. In addition, Dr. Gloria is a board member for The Compassionate Friends and Dr. Heidi is an adjunct professor at Columbia University and has a private practice in manhattan. Their message is that others have made it through the grief journey and so can you, if you do not yet have hope lean on theirs.
Three weeks ago I lost my little brother. He was 20 years old. On that day he was with a friend playing pool but both of them didn’t have a car since they arrived to that place walking. (It was close for walking distance to their homes). They saw 2 other kids they knew (but not very well) which they used to play basketball together. They offered my brother and his friend a ride to their houses and they accepted. The little they knew is that those guys from which they accepted the ride where doing bad stuff. They got into the car and in a stop light the car was heavily shot by all kinds of machine guns. My brother (who didn’t have nothing to do with anything) was the only one that died. He was still alive when he got to the hospital but since it was a change of schedule they left him wait for a turn. The hospital in which they took him here in PR i terrible. When they finally attended him, he had bled to death. They tried to resuscitate him 3 times but he died still. My mother is in so much pain that she cries every day. Every time I try t let go, she reminds me of everything and I start crying. His death is very difficult to us. Also not long ago, about 11 months earlier another little sister of mine passed away at age 25. Her death was expected because she had rett syndrome and in her last year all her organs were shutting down also she was in bed for more than 10 years. We cried for her but we recuperate faster. My brother’s death was different. I am now pregnant and it has bring us joy, but my mother still is very affected with all this. What can I do to help her and help myself? We are from Puerto Rico, thank you for your time.