Three Of Us Together
Today marks six months since Catherine died. As I tucked Sarah in last night, she said, “It’s gone so fast, Mom.” I agree. It feels like this hole in our lives just opened up a few days ago in our…
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121
April 5th marked four months since Catherine died. It was 121 days exactly. She spent exactly 121 days in the NICU after she was born. Anyone else find that interesting?
Listen for Singing
Years ago, when my parents got divorced, my Mom had me make something for her. She never told me why or gave me any backstory, and I never asked. She had an old piece of slate broken into approximately the…
The Scariest Moment of My Life – By: Sarah Moore
Sarah had to write a personal narrative at school. She’s in 5th grade and came home to tell me she had written about what happened the day Catherine died. The below is published with her permission and all my love….
The Hospital
In the ambulance, I kept kicking myself. Why didn’t I print her medical history last night? I was lazy. Serves me right. I had updated it. All the info was there – just for emergencies like this. But I didn’t…
What Happened?
So many people asked me, “What happened?” in the hours after Catherine died. I repeated the story over and over again – to paramedics… to doctors… to nurses… to clergy… to family… to friends… I finally got tired of it…
Two Weeks Today
Two weeks ago, today, I was up at 5:00 AM preparing for my day like usual. Well, not exactly like usual because it’s a Wednesday, and I usually wash my hair on Wednesdays. Two weeks ago, today, I was dragging….
Waiting Again…
It’s always interesting how sitting in the hospital makes me want to write. Catherine has pneumonia and we just learned she also has a bowel obstruction. That’s something that wasn’t on my radar! Her belly has been so distended for…
Test
Testing mobile blogging. I will update folks on Catherine’s progress after surgery so I thought I’d check the mobile version 🙂 Four more days. Ugh! Got to swim twice. And took a bunch of pics. Gotta figure out how to…
Testing Email Notifications
Just spent an hour figuring out how to set up email notifications for this blog. Crossing my fingers that it works.