General Chat

fortunately both my parents died peacefully - my Dad died first and that was awful to deal with, I loved him dearly, but when Mum died I found it easier to deal with her death, although of course she meant the world to me

However, when my husband died that was a horrendous death and I watched him die in agony, only relieved by a morphine injection to stop the trauma - somehow I got through it and now, nearly thirteen years later I can speak of him without crying

Have just been reading one of Uzzi's threads. She lost Minx around the same time as my Desmond died and I have just thought of how we handle grief in such different ways.

Years of training taught me to suppress everything, I think, so I am booking a cat trap to press on to the task ahead while Uzzi, quite sensibly, gets the grief out.

Maybe it has been made easier for me because I have had to deal with such peaceful, gentle deaths recently, with no trauma involved.