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Silver Linings

Taking Things for Granted Replay

January 16, 2020 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

With Mari’s departure on Thursdays, we’ll be featuring repeats from Mike’s posts over the years.  Enjoy this piece, originally written in 2016.   You don’t realize how important the little things are until you don’t have them.  It could be something as simple as sitting on the couch, watching TV until you fall asleep with your partner, and…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Birthdays Tagged With: widower, birthdays, widower with children, Silver Linings

Appreciating a Disease’s Lessons

January 10, 2017 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

The other day I received a text message from a friend of mine, who happens to have Cystic Fibrosis herself.  This friend was there for Megan and I when Megan was going through her 6 month decline, and I can’t describe enough how she (and her husband) went above and beyond for us.   They would visit at the drop of a hat, when I just needed an…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Effect on Family/Friends, Widowed and Healing, Widowed by Illness, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Silver Linings, Disease, widower, organ transplant, Long Term Illness, lung transplant, friends, Mike Welker, widower with children, help, lessons, Cystic Fibrosis, death

Peanut Butter and Homework

September 6, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

Last week, Shelby started the fourth grade.  This is the second school year that she has begun without Megan doting over every paper she brought home, every picture day, PTA meeting, or fundraiser flyer th at seems to be more frequent than homework.  Her peanut butter sandwiches (which she eats every day for lunch, no matter how much we suggest…

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Taking Things for Granted

February 15, 2016 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

You don’t realize how important the little things are until you don’t have them.  It could be something as simple as sitting on the couch, watching TV until you fall asleep with your partner, and it is taken for granted.  Then you lose that person.     I’ll admit that I was eased into some of the more technical aspects of the widower…

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Silver Linings Playbook

July 21, 2015 by Mike Welker Leave a Comment

I’ve noted a shift in my overall attitude since Megan’s death.  I was somewhat of a pessimist in years past; always finding the bad news in any nugget of information that may have come my way.  Perhaps it was the shock of losing my wife that finally changed my outlook in everyday life.  I now take events or news with a different eye, one…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Parenting, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widower, Stress, Mike Welker, widower with children, happiness, Silver Linings, Outlooks, Optimism

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