Join me on the ride of my life. My journey of grief and moving forwards to a happy life again.
I have spoken to many male and females who have been widowed over the years and it's like we are the silent club. We all acknowledge there feels something different when you are left sole and single parenting, widower, or have a parent die when you are young or a child pass away. There's a... Continue Reading →
When death comes knocking at your door on some idle Tuesday afternoon. In my years when grief was intense , I shed a lot of tears. The tears still come from time to time but a lot less often and more privately. The first 7 years after Harry's death were the hardest. It's now 19... Continue Reading →
Life throws us curve balls but how we react is upto the individual. Having a positive life is about conscious effort. It's embracing all the disappointments and growing within to consciously make a choice to be happy, do right, having a good life pulling on all you have learnt to help you be a better person. Choose happiness not resentment or bitterness. The world owes you nothing. Each of us is responsible for our own health and happiness despite what has happened in our lives that was out of our control. It's how you go on that matters.
Professor Kaye Harry’s neurosurgeon told us 95 percent of people diagnosed with a Glioblastoma Multiforme ( GBM) tumour die within 52 weeks of diagnosis. Harry was dead by 50 weeks, becoming a mere statistic for neuroscience but he was so much more to us. He was given a Police Honour funeral. The Funeral was recorded at the time and last night on the 19th anniversary of his passing I felt the urge to view it. To us he was a husband and father and a whole lot more. This is us, 19 years on.
Ted Loves Lucy 