You ever been in the water.. and you start to get tired and your stroke gets slower and you sink a little deeper .. or like when you are in the current and you stop fighting it and let it pull you … That’s what grief is like I think.. Sometimes its too strong and you simply are unable to resist its pull on you.. Especially in the beginning.. because really you are only just learning to swim. But then you learn.. you have to right? So then you feel it happening and you kick against it.. Just a few strong kicks will bring you back to the surface and you can gulp in air. It happened to me today. pull. kick. kick. breathe .. but first I’ll rewind.. Two days ago I took my 4 younger kids with me to go see their sister. .. the living .. growing..[…]
kick.kick.breathe.
Posted on Author Unravel Pediatric CancerCategories child loss, childhood cancer, DIPG, grieving after 4 years, growing up in grief, sibling lossTags 3 year old sibling loss, 5 year old grief, 5 year old sibling loss, 7 year old sibling loss, bereaved family, bereaved parent, bereaved sibling, brain tumor, child death, child grief, child loss, childhood cancer, Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, DIPG, sibling loss7 Comments