Grieving parents feel guilt. I have read numerous writings by parents who have lost a child and every single parent feels guilt. Sometimes there is a valid reason for some guilt, but mostly there's just the feeling that we should have done something different poor noticed something that was hard to notice....
I feel guilt. Patrick feels guilt.
The other night I was watching tv with the kids and these thoughts settled into my head....I thought "perhaps if I had hugged Nolan more tightly before he went to bed, I should have noticed his heart was beating funny. Then I could have taken him to the hospital and we wouldn't be living this nightmare."
I have lots of other feelings of things I did wrong that day, but that was a new one...
I know that there's probably no way I would have noticed his heart was beating funny, but what if???
Guilt
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