[tri-wings] Re: Platitudes

> Tracy is a small town.  About 2000 people.

It must be the name of the town!  Great name!!!

 But I had no idea how
> many moms had lost their children until Cheryl lost Hope.

We usually do not know what other people have gone through until we feel the
same hurts and pains.

 I'd be
> walking in the grocery store, and someone would come up to me and
> just start talking.  I would listen with amazement at their stories.

It is amazing how many people do feel our pain or at least what to lend an
ear.

>.  They always ask how Cheryl is doing.  Only one
> young man Cheryl's age asks about her husband.  He also lost a little
> girl about a year before Cheryl and says that so often the dads get
> forgotten nowadays.

Yes I agree that dad's do get left out, I think it is because men show the
emotion differently than woman.  Which is no excuse they need the same
griefing time we need.

> Whenever I see a brief notice in the paper about a baby dying, I want
> to sent a card or give them a call, even in towns up to 20 miles
> away.  But there are never any addresses, and the post office is a
> real stickler for having the correct address!  I always hurt with
> them even though they don't know it.
>
You are a very special grandma...would you adopt me?  Maybe you could get in
touch with the funeral home, explain your story and they could give you the
address of the family.

Hugs,
Tracy mom to Cody (Trisomy 9)


> Hugs,
> Sheila Helleson
> Minnesota Grandma to:  Hope (T-18 ^i^ 11-1-1) & Alison; Cadence and
> Bridge
> Mom to Cheryl (& Denny);  Wade (& Charity)
> Wife to Richard for 35 years
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> "Shared joy is double joy, and shared sorrow is half-sorrow."
> Swedish Proverb
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> Laughter and tears are the healing medicines of God.
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