Unpacking Someday
2 years ago
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Jesse
How lucky I was to be your mom.
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- Isonomist
- On February 8 2007 my 22 year old son Jesse died after a ten day coma, due to complications from APL leukemia. He and his younger brother had just lost their dad in January 2003, just a few months after Jesse had started college. Jesse's first round with leukemia was in July-August 2004. He recovered in time to push himself through University of Michigan on time, with good grades, chemo and all. This time, we weren't so lucky.
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Hey, Iso. I would never presume to compare your loss to mine. It'll be 4 years to the day at 5:50 PM tomorrow evening. All I can say is that I'm still taking mom's death a lot harder than my siblings are. I don't know exactly what that means. Maybe just know that... I don't know. That having met neither you nor your boy that you've both made an impression on me.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry I didn't answer this sooner, I haven't been here at all since that last post. It's been too hard to deal with. I think it's harder to cope with grief when you don't have the distractions of others, when you lose someone you love that much, a lot of things contribute. So I don't really know how to compare loss. We each have a different experience. But I can say that losing Jesse has somehow made the loss of my father less painful. Maybe it's like curing a headache by breaking an arm.
ReplyDeleteI miss our interposts.