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he phone rang at 3:30 this afternoon. It was my other son-in-law letting me know that my 4-day-old granddaughter was in the ER. He and my daughter took her to the pediatrician this morning and were promptly sent to Children's Hospital in St. Paul. Baby isn't eating, is severely dehydrated, lost too much weight and is jaundiced.
The second call came just an hour later to tell me that our little LE was being admitted.
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I finally found it ... or the source that may have prompted the online article I mentioned in my first anniversary post. The blurb stated that 'grief is not a journey'. It took a couple of weeks and some serious searching to find the piece published by CBS News. While hunting it down, I expected to find a personal account and was a bit disturbed to discover a news story promoting a book with 'the truth' about grief.
All of Belle's classmates were invited to her sixth birthday party last summer. Most of them came to celebrate. The giant water slide and child-sized zip line in the backyard kept the future first graders entertained all afternoon and by the time the group was rounded up to go inside for cake and ice cream, they were all comfortable, loud and chatty.
From my spot in the living room, I heard one of the boys ask his friends, "Did you know that Belle had a sister that died?" While cleaning my bathroom last week, a cardinal squawked at me from the little tree outside my window. I looked out and there he was ... apparently yelling at me. What? What do you want? What do you need me to do? And as quickly as the beautiful, red bird appeared, he was gone.
The next day, as I was starting to log off my computer, I briefly noticed a headline that included the phrase 'grief is not a journey'. At a brief glance, the indication was that the author is a tad annoyed that the days, months and years following the death of a loved one is commonly referred to as a 'journey'. I was in a hurry to get to an appointment, so made a mental note that this was an article I wanted to revisit. If this time we spend following the death of our loved one isn't a 'journey', then what what does the author call it, I wondered? How does he/she describe it? My curiosity was piqued. |
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