“Raw”
I am very fortunate that it has been awhile (9+ years) since I felt the rawness of just losing a child. However, I remember the moment of being told “the news” very vividly.
It doesn’t take much for me to be taken right back to that moment. The good news is that it doesn’t hurt no where near as bad as it did in the moment(s), days, months and years following. I didn’t believe it when I heard it, but “time really does heal.” I know some of you will not agree with me, but please understand, I am not saying I am “healed”, that will never happen, the scar will always remain. What I am saying is the wound gets less grotesque and less painful with time.
Yesterday, a newly bereaved dad (less than a week) sent me a radio interview that he and his wife did to bring awareness to the struggles that his…
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