Grief and the holidays, 10 tips that might help. This year is the seventh holiday season in which I no longer have a living parent. It’s still hard. It still hurts. I know I am lucky because I have many wonderful memories. But it’s still hard. I’m supposed to have moved on. I’m supposed to …
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What if you’re not feeling all that grateful this Thanksgiving? (It happens.) I love holidays. I love Thanksgiving. In fact, Thanksgiving might be my favorite holiday, or at least it’s at the top of my list. Not sure what this says about me. Okay, yes, it says I like the food! And the togetherness and …
This post was published one week following the 2016 presidential election. As most of you know, generally I steer clear of politics on this blog for various reasons. After all, this is a cancer blog; however, I also frequently focus on loss, so this post seems appropriate for that reason alone. So here goes… I …
Did you know November is National Hospice and Palliative Care Month? Most people don’t and most people don’t know the difference between the two either, which is too bad for a lot of reasons. When my mother was dying from metastatic breast cancer in 2008, I didn’t fully understand the differences between hospice care and …
It hasn’t even been two months since my dad’s funeral. Stuff surrounding those horribly difficult days is still fresh in my mind. So before my memory gets cloudy, I thought it might be interesting to write about things people say at funerals, or specifically, what people said to me at my dad’s funeral. I am …