goodbye, JJ
This will be my last blog about JJ. I was talking to a friend online awhile ago and the friend asked me how it's going. I replied that I think I'm at last moving on, and I believe I am. The hole in my heart will always be there, and part of me will always weep for my baby but now I've accepted the loss and trying very hard to live with it. Acceptance has been the most difficult; not because I could not accept that he is gone but because I was not sure if his death was not partly my fault. I have had to be assured time and time again that I did everything I could, and be sure in myself that there was really nothing that I could have done to prevent the loss of JJ, before I was able to stop shedding tears. There were five straight nights when I thought my head would explode for asking too many what ifs over and over again. What if I rested more? What if I stayed in bed instead of going to a garage sale and being on my feet for hours? What...