Posted by The Grief Blog on December 4, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Below are my notes from a few days ago – about AIDS and dying – in anticipation of today and perhaps for online posting:
“Nothing is more certain than death; Nothing is less certain than its time.”
We are all dying.
But some of us receive an announcement of our impending death in the form of the diagnosis [...]
Posted by The Grief Blog on December 1, 2008 · Leave a Comment
According to UNAIDS estimates, there are now 33.2 million people living with HIV, including 2.5 million children. During 2007 some 2.5 million people became newly infected with the virus. Around half of all people who become infected with HIV do so before they are 25 and are killed by AIDS before they are 35. For [...]
Posted by The Grief Blog on February 15, 2007 · 5 Comments
For the past few days I’ve been walking around feeling like there’s a big weight hanging over me ready to fall at any moment. Getting things done has been a chore. Making plans beyond the next day has taken all of my willpower. It feels as though my life is on hold and that I’m [...]
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Posted by The Grief Blog on February 8, 2007 · Leave a Comment
Valerie Sobel is founder and president of the Andre Sobel River of Life Foundation that bears the name of her beloved teenage son who died of an inoperable brain tumor. She believes that the life she now has was born with the death of her son.
Her prior careers are eclipsed by the passion and the [...]
Posted by The Grief Blog on December 2, 2006 · Leave a Comment
Thank you for the opportunity to share my experience with the IPPC (Initiative for Pediatric Palliative Care) retreat led by Deborah Dokken, your guest on Thursday.
I am the parent of Dakota, an adorable “old soul” who was diagnosed with cancer at two and died one week before he turned five. That was ten [...]
Posted by The Grief Blog on November 24, 2006 · 3 Comments
My father died from lung cancer on January third, 2005. After entering a nursing facility for rehab, we soon discovered that he had stage four small-cell lung cancer. He lived for three and one-half weeks after his diagnosis.
While January third never had any signficance before, it now holds signficance for me that I would never [...]
Posted by griefandfaith on November 18, 2006 · 1 Comment
1) Don’t try to make the grieving person feel better. YOU CANNOT. For many grievers it only serves to make them feel guilty or worse. Grievers MUST experience the pain of grief for healing to ultimately occur.
2) Don’t tell the griever to give it time. Time has stopped for the griever. Life proceeds in slow [...]
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Posted by griefandfaith on November 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment
I can’t imagine a more difficult or trying period: coping with the death of a loved one. This is especially true when they are relatively young or not showing a sign of a previous illness or disease. Auto accident victims immediately come to mind because of their proliferation. But there are other ways and means [...]
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Posted by The Grief Blog on November 17, 2006 · 1 Comment
I would like to share with you a beautiful song that is comforting to the soul and powerful enough to heal the grief-stricken.
My wife, Bobbie, brought this song to my attention one day in 1998. It was a year before Bobbie was diagnosed with what would later be terminal cancer. Sixteen months later, she [...]
Posted by The Grief Blog on November 17, 2006 · Leave a Comment
In November of 2005, my uncle passed away from non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. He was my very favorite uncle and he is greatly missed. He was a resident of Seasons of Life Hospice, here in Parma. The hospice team provided him, my family, and me with such wonderful care and support and we are [...]
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