It is going to be so difficult to get through a Thanksgiving dinner without ALL my sons sitting at our table. I am trying to think of how I am going to be able to keep it together so we can try to enjoy celebrating being together. Mothers seem to have this job of keeping everything and everyone in a safe, comfortable place. What thoughts I have is to embrace him being gone and maybe bringing out some things that will make us smile or laugh out loud about Danny. As I write this I am crying so… Continue

I never really knew just how much my heart could hurt until my 32 year old son Danny died of colon/liver cancer. I watched him suffer for 22 months and lived with all his fears, sorrow, worries and pains right up until he took his last breath. Some people truly do not know what to say but feel a need to say something, anything and it may not be what we want to hear. The family members left behind hear all types of comments. When ever some one lingers like my son did you get comments like: He is… Continue