Bereavement

I bet everybody on this thread (looked like a long one as I quickly skimmed it just now) has sent you mental and emotional and spiritual hugs. I wish a bunch of us could surround you and physically hug you.

The holiday season is no time for someone to have to mourn. It should be all carefree fun and celebration, not sadness. It's never a good time to endure such a profound loss, but over the holidays!?

Perhaps you can remember the kind, sympathetic, and empathetic sentiments in this thread. Keep it so you can refer back whenever you need it. The one that developed for me when I posted about the death of my mom - reading through that really helped. Sincerely. If I loved DU for no other reason, that alone would be enough.

Maybe here's what you do (humbly suggested): Post about it again. And again. And AGAIN. Whenever you need to talk, or unburden, or find comfort. I can't tell you how deeply I was - and still am - comforted by the words of our beloved DUer Skittles, who long ago posted "someone's always here." That's still true to this very moment. Never seems to matter what time it is OR what day it is. Don't forget that, Drunken Irishman. Especially now.