Grief Monologue

I heard someone say, grief isn’t a life sentence, it’s a life passage. It’s the one common human experience we all have at one time or another. I’m now discovering that grieving the loss of your child is the hardest thing you will have ever done. I know, because suddenly, without warning, my life has dramatically changed. My beautiful 11-year old was complaining of a headache and a fever but somehow I decided to ignore him. But it wasn’t the right thing a caring parent should have done. Sometime during the night, my boy was taken from me forever. I found him the next morning in his bed, lifeless. The bacterium was actually a swift and deadly form of the devil. People refer to it as “the worst that can happen,” and that’s exactly what it feels