Tag: Death

"A week after she passed away I stumbled across this picture in her phone."

After Erin woke up from her several surgeries, she scrawled on a piece of paper her husband's final words to the shooter...

"I stopped the car and got out. The interior light came on but Nicholas didn't move. I looked closer and saw his tongue was sticking out slightly and there was a trace of vomit on his chin... The shock of seeing him like that was the bleakest moment I've ever had."

"How many times did you deliver bad news with sadness in your eyes?"

"That blue stain was just a big fat negative in my life. I hated it. The next month, we got devastating news about my sweet son, the one who splattered it all over our carpet."

"I fell to my knees, and then to my back. It came from up from my gut. I could almost physically feel it moving to the top of my abdomen, to my chest, into my neck and then my head. I cannot describe the pain. It was like my soul was slowly being ripped away from my body."

Am I doing my kids a disservice by always promising that everything will be okay, when very likely it won’t be?

"Mallory was never in contact with a person who had an active cold sore. Never. Nobody ever kissed her on the mouth."