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Friday Focus 22/06/18 – Unanswered questions

22/06/201822/06/2018
Questions - this week's word of the week

The end of the week is always the hardest part of the week. It’s at this point in the week that the memories of those last days with Jessica come back the most and often with those memories come questions. Did I ask the right questions when we were in hospital? Would Jessica still be… Read More

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Grief and life after Jessica: in dreams

19/06/2018
Sophie and Jessica asleep in a big bed together

Last night I dreamed about Jessica. She was wearing a hand-knitted green and white cardigan that she’d had as a toddler, although in my dream she was the age she was when she died. She’d been chewing on her cardigan next to a button and had made it fray slightly. As I often did in… Read More

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A terrible freedom – life after the loss of a child with a disability

14/06/201814/06/2018
Sophie pushing Jessica in her buggy

If you’d asked me to describe our daily life with Jessica, I would have said it was pretty normal. All the things that came with having a child with a complex heart condition were just part of our everyday life. We did them without really thinking about them and never really noticed their impact. It… Read More

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Grief and life after Jessica: Time

02/06/201801/06/2018
A clock showing a time of 8:25

They say that time heals. Time doesn’t heal; it hurts. Time is a relentless tide. It takes me further away from life with Jessica. The turn of the calendar brings me pain. A new month is a month without her. A month with no memories to be made.     As Friday moves into Saturday,… Read More

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Grief and life after Jessica: the loneliness of 3am

24/05/201825/05/2018
Jessica asleep in her bed

Once upon a time, I sat on the floor, exhausted and sleep-deprived, waiting for my girls to settle down to sleep and wrote a post about the loneliness of 3AM. I was tired and snappy as I held their hands, longing for them to go back to sleep so I could sleep too. By the… Read More

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Grief and life after Jessica: after the funeral

23/05/201825/05/2018
The dragonfly in Jessica's garden at preschool

Organising a funeral is similar to organising a wedding – only without being fun. There are flowers to organise, halls to book, catering to organise, service sheets to put together. On the day, there are so many people to try and talk to, so much to focus on and it passed by quickly in a… Read More

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Grief and life after Jessica: the stormy sea

08/05/201808/05/2018
A drawing of me, hubby and Sophie in a boat tossed about on a stormy sea

Since losing Jessica, our lives have changed forever. It feels as though we have been thrown into a boat, tossed on the waves of a stormy sea. Behind us is the island that was our happy complete family life. An island that we are forever exiled from. An island that we desperately want to return… Read More

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I'm Louise, mummy of three - Jessica, forever six, who was born with half a heart and lives on in mine; and heart-healthy Sophie (born 2013) and Thomas (born 2018). I blog about living with grief after child loss, crafts, days out and the little moments of family life.

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