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Our first Christmas without Henry came & went. The day itself was okay, maybe because there were so many horrible, painful days leading up to it; we must have hit our quota or something. We talked about him a lot & included his memory throughout the day.
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I speak publicly about Henry in an effort to destigmatize grief. My family is sad & in pain because our beautiful 2 yr old boy died after a long illness. Why wouldn’t we be sad? Why wouldn’t we be angry and confused?
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Tweets like this aren’t therapeutic to me, nor are they “updates”. I just want other bereaved parents & siblings to feel seen/heard/respected/loved. And maybe they might help someone not schooled in grief support a friend better. I don’t know.
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Well, as long as I was already crying from Rob's thread, I figured why not increase my tear production. I did, and I'm not sorry, but man... 😢
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Thank you for posting this article to read. I lost my son to cancer and being a bereaved parents is like no other grief, it's a living nightmare. It helps reading articles from other bereaved parents to see that I am not alone with the complex and lonely grief childloss gives.
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