Charles R Foley Jr. Gilmartin Foundation

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Sadly, we often have to remind both family and friends to be patient with us. Our grief is FOREVER, and we will never be going back to our old self again. When a child dies, a parent is permanently changed by the trauma, the pain, and the emptiness of such a loss. Every day parents feel fresh pain......it's like reliving the death of our child over and over again. Quite often it takes years to move beyond the initial shock and pain of child loss to a place of a more gentle kind of grieving.

Me too!