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10 Months Ago

August 29, 2019 by Mari Posa Leave a Comment

This week’s post from Mari shares some raw memories of the moments she shared with her husband in the hospital just after his death.  If you are feeling vulnerable in your own grief experience today, please either proceed with caution or know that as an act of self-care it’s OK to choose not to read today’s post.   It’s been 10 months since I…

Filed Under: Widowed Anniversaries, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed sadness, widowed flashbacks, widowed death anniversay

Beneficiary

September 21, 2018 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

All it took was one text.  One little text for my heart to do flipflops,  and to feel nauseous.  Anxiety, panic, and fear set in.  All the voices from grief’s terror chamber, emerged.  Earlier this morning …  “Hey Baby. I need your SS# so I can make you my Emergency Contact, and make you the beneficiery for life insurance, etc.”  My…

Filed Under: Widowed Emotions Tagged With: kelley lynn, widowed flashbacks, widowhood and grief triggers, benefits

Our Old Lives

May 15, 2015 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

“I want my old life back.”   I’ve heard a lot of widowed people say that, as I have, and continue to, some days.   I miss a lot of little things about being married to Mike. It was a comfortable, familiar life, after nearly 14 years of marriage. I can still hear him shuffling across the tile floors, whistling. The refrigerator door opening and…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: widowed remembering, stephanie vendrell, young widow, widow, widowed memories, widowed flashbacks

Hurricane Grief

January 15, 2015 by Stephanie Vendrell Leave a Comment

Last weekend a friend who is dear to me and was dear to Mike since nearly the day we moved to Kona in 2001 had a terrible asthma attack. This young man was 11 when we met him. He is now 25, so we have seen him grow up into a young adult. He and his mom were devoted students of Mike’s for many years in martial arts, and since his father was not…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Memories, Widowed Emotions, Multiple Losses Tagged With: widowed mourning an additional loss, widow, widowed memories, widowed flashbacks, stephanie vendrell

Mysterious Waters

June 30, 2014 by Cassie Deitz Leave a Comment

I spent a day unearthing minute details of Dave’s death the other day. Not because I wanted to, but because I had to. The manner in which his death was hastened has a lot to do with the care he had and that has led to an investigation of sorts. It came to a head last week and I felt the physical blow which accompanies the rehashing of the day he…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed flashbacks, cassie deitz, widowed with no children, widowed grief triggers, young widow, widowed suddenly, widow

It’s Just Not Fair

June 28, 2014 by Rebecca Collins Leave a Comment

I was driving home from work recently, singing along to the radio in my own little world, when I passed a car the exact same model and colour as my husband’s. Next thing I knew I was instantly transported back to That Day.   The last time I saw my husband, 11 months ago, was around 8am as he kissed me goodbye and left for work. But he didn’t go to…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Emotions, Widowed by Suicide Tagged With: widowed flashbacks, rebecca collins, aussie widow, suicide widow, widowed grief triggers, young widow, widowed anger, widow

Secret Universe

May 2, 2014 by Kelley Lynn Leave a Comment

The other day, I was watching the Yankee game, and the Yankees were playing at home, against the Seattle Mariners. Now, if you know anything at all about baseball or the Yankees, you might know that Robinson Cano left the Yankees at the end of last season, and signed on with the Mariners. It is complicated and has to do with contracts and…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed Without Children, Widowed Emotions Tagged With: young widow, widow, kelley lynn, widowed flashbacks, widowed with no children

Ambulance

January 27, 2014 by Cassie Deitz Leave a Comment

In the hospital, suffering from myocarditis, Dave accidentally pulled the heart pump out of his vein. This meant that he’d have to have a new heart pump inserted. Instead, while waiting to get the new pump, he crashed. That heart pump had been helping his terribly damaged heart keep plugging along and without it his vitals went downhill fast. The…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: widowed growth, cassie deitz, young widow, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed flashbacks, widowed lessons

Dear Dave

October 7, 2013 by Cassie Deitz Leave a Comment

Dear Dave, I just finished looking through our pictures again. Sometimes, fearing I’ve imagined my former life, I need proof that it all really happened.  Italy, our house rehab, Hawaii, Yellowstone, the hundreds of pics you took of your beloved students scrolled before my eyes. I sobbed and sobbed, scaring the cat with the sounds of my heart…

Filed Under: Widowed, Widowed and Healing, Widowed Emotions, Widowed Suddenly Tagged With: cassie deitz, widowed letters, young widow, widowed missing him, widowed anger, widowed guilt, widowed suddenly, widow, widowed flashbacks, long live love

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