Tag: loss
member name: Pina M.
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September 19, 2006 09:41 PM EDT --
Gloria died today. As as I sit here typing these words, I can feel myself falling again, tumbling back through time to a place of grief I felt so long ago, when my mother's own fight against cancer . . .
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September 23, 2006 01:50 PM EDT --
I was married for ten long years to a man who was, to say the least, an odd duck - or rather, a seriously troubled odd duck who flapped his wings too much (when not being remote and distant otherwise) and . . .
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October 03, 2006 10:11 PM EDT --
I don't think there is a woman alive today who hasn't faced her image in front of a full length mirror wondering how she could improve upon her appearance or her weight in the name of garnering . . .
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December 02, 2006 01:03 AM EST --
REQUIEM FOR DINERO BOO, THE FINAL EVENING
PART 1
At night, in the distant past of our lives together
You brought me comfort,
Soothing
My loneliness, the bitterness and . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:48 PM EST --
SICK: LIVING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE AND FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME, Part II
I am not entirely sure when all of this started. It's kind of like trying to figure out if the . . .
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February 23, 2008 10:34 PM EST --
CHRONIC ILLNESS AND THE FINE ART OF SAYING "NO"
They say "sorry" is the hardest word for many of us, but for me the word "no" has been my downfall. After . . .
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February 22, 2008 11:41 PM EST --
SICK: LIVING WITH CHRONIC FATIGUE AND FIBROMYALGIA SYNDROME, Part 1
When you first look at me, you wouldn't believe or think that I am sick, just as you wouldn't know I am . . .
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October 02, 2006 10:10 PM EDT --
Preface:
Those who know me on Gather - or rather, are getting to know me - are aware that I lost my mother 31 years ago to cancer and my father 26 years ago to heart disease. I was 19 and 24 years old . . .
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December 02, 2006 09:26 AM EST --
By now, you can pretty much surmise how great a mood I am in this morning. It's 7:40 a.m. and I have had maybe 4 hours of sleep, which is not all that unusual when I am under stress. We have . . .
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November 25, 2006 04:39 PM EST --
Where I am From
I came from love, a second marriage of opposites
A love forged in passion and grace,
Entwined in inner sorrows, revealed when I matured
A gentle, . . .
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December 25, 2006 09:52 PM EST --
Christmas in my home was always weird, or at least that is how I perceived it to be when I was a kid. This isn't to say I didn't have good Christmases, get great presents, eat lovingly prepared . . .
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September 21, 2006 11:47 AM EDT --
There was a time once, and not that long ago, where I defined myself solely by my losses and not the whole of me. At some point in a given conversation I would say that I was a motherless, fatherless and . . .
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December 03, 2006 09:56 AM EST --
Morning has come. The sky is clear with some clouds overhead. It looks cold out, and I dread the coming of winter, my least favorite season. Light snow is coming tomorrow, and I will greet it with . . .
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October 09, 2008 10:06 PM EDT --
Today, just two hours after I returned home from my 6 month checkup with my breast cancer surgeon, I had to euthanize my 7th and youngest male cat, Ginger, a lovely orange and white, long . . .
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June 03, 2007 09:32 AM EDT --
MEMORIES OF MOM
Today is my mother's 32nd death anniversary. In the motherless daughter's world this somber anniversary would be called Mom's Angel Day. Even though my mother remains a kind . . .
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