Tag: death of a child

I know the gut-wrenching, hollow feeling left behind when a child is taken too early. It’s a feeling that mothers have experienced recently and throughout the last few years after tragic attacks in Orlando, Manchester, London, San Bernardino, California, and Charleston... just to name a few.

With every new tragedy, vigil, story on the news or anniversary recognizing these events, plenty of mothers like myself—who lost her adult child to cancer—feel the sting of the wound that accompanies their loss.