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A reader writes: My wife passed away in hospice this past month. Since then I went home and had scant support from outside sources, to some degree by choice, and I've done everything mostly alone. Hospice people have called and sent literature, and I just couldn't accept my wife's death enough to respond. I was her caregiver and basically her nurse for years, without alot of outside help, it was all left up to us.
I know she would have died much sooner if we both hadn't fought the powers that be to get her the treatment she needed and keep her out of the nursing homes. I wasn't going to do much with hospice. I was and am seeking counsling on my own though, which should start in the next few weeks. I just happened to look up "grief" on the computer and yours is the first website I looked at.
I'm still filled with grief, so many unresolved issues to do with my wife. We were so much in love, we spent every possible minute together. I was with her holding her in my arms when she took her last breath.
This is my first one-to-one time that I've reached out. I need coping skills. Can you help me?
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