I FOUND OUT THAT I AM NOT ALONE


Last night, I attended the third meeting of the bereavement support group I recently joined. We heard stories from several new members of the group and the details of one member’s story were eerily similar to the details to my story. It was remarkable and reinforces my belief that I stand to gain much relief from the pain of my loss of my wife Patty by discussing our shared experiences. Somehow, the knowledge that others have the sort of pain that I am experiencing is a form of grief therapy for me.

I learned the name of the deceased spouse of another member of our group and the name seemed familiar to me. I established that I had done volunteer work with the deceased person in the distant past and we had a great conversation about that. What a small world this is.

 

 

Published by THE OLD MACHINIST

I am 89 years old and was married for 66 years. My wife passed away in 2016. I am a retired engineer and spent 35 years developing INS gyroscopes. I was a High School mentor in physics, a mountaineer, a model builder, a machinist and I have a degree in Physics. My interests include railroad history and photography, science history, cosmology, interesting people, and old engineering drawings. I place a high value on my friendships. I enjoying my life and I try look forward with a sense of anticipation and curiosity about what my future has in store for me.

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT; THEY HELP ME IMPROVE MY WRITING

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. Log Out /  Change )

Connecting to %s

%d bloggers like this: