Losing Joe — Still Pushing Through The Pain at Year 3

Elaine M. Suarez
Growing Grief
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2 min readMay 9, 2021

Chapter 10

The first year on Mother's Day, it was blurred pain. I couldn’t feel anything, my mind and body were numb to life. But, in year 2, I realized the truth of my uninvited grief journey; Joe was not coming back. Now, year 3 is here. Mother's Day with my beautiful daughters and grandbabies is beyond the glory of joy, but we are still missing one person. My son…

Elaine M. Suarez
Growing Grief

I am a bereavement survivor of child loss. I write about my uninvited journey in grief after the sudden loss of my son, Joseph.