Sharing My Story As A Grandmother

[Cathy Withell]

I am a new member and would like to share with all of you the wonderful website that my daughter created for my grandson. She has spent many, many hours creating this page. It has been wonderful therapy for her. I hope you can see the love she had for her son. It was such a great loss for the whole family. I am so grateful for having found this website. I believe the time has come that grandma now needs some support.

http://BabyJayce.IsInOurHearts.com

[calvin's mother]

And we need some grandma support here too....I hope more grandmas join and become a part of our NILMDTS family.We are all here for you Cathy....Hugs

[Shelly]

Dear Cathy, Sadly, welcome. Thank you for sharing Baby Jayce's website (I wish I could get in...maybe later I'll be able to). I recently met another grandmother who told me about the loss of her grandson. She said the loss changed their whole family forever. I'm so soory for hte losso fyour baby Jayce. I wish you peace on this journey of grief and healing. Take good care. Shelly

[Estrella]

Of course Grandma needs support. I wish my mom was as supportive as you. She chooses to try to ignore the situation. God Bless your sweet Angel! That is a beautiful page your daughter put together, thank you for sharing. Please know that we are here for you, feel free to vent. You and your family are in my thoughts and prayers.


(((HUGS))) Estrella

[Cheryl Haggard]

I love the picture of his little hand on the soccer ball...It is very powerful...Thank you for sharing your grandson with us. I too, wish more grandmothers would become involved...
Blessings,
Cheryl

[Lindzy Foster]

Cathy although i am sad for the reason you are here we welcome you, I have been blessed that my close family has been very supportive of the loss of our daughter especially my mother who lost a child 30 years ago....she has not commented in the forum but she reads it frequently, your grandson is so handsome and the page is beautiful, you can see how much love your daughter put into it....their tattoos are beautiful, if you search the threads we actually have one for memorial tattoos of our angels.....thinking of and praying for your family....
Lindzy

[Lyssa Sauer]

I do agree we need to add a grandparent thread on here. There were some days that I felt that my mother took my sons death worse than I did. Grandparents get a double wammy first loosing their grandbaby and second watching their own children fall to pecies.
Welcome Cathy I think you will bring insight on the family aspect that we as the parents of lossing children may over look. Sending prayer for your family.

[Cathy Withell]

Lyssa,

Your reply means so much to me. Yes, you loose a grandson and that is just beyond belief and then you have a daughter to watch suffering from such pain. You forget to think about yourself. And, when you finally have just a split second to think about your own feelings they just flood your entire soul. My daughter has asked if she can get a cat (she is living at home now) as she needs something to take care of. We already have a small dog and I do not want another pet in the house. I feel so mean saying "NO". I am not sure what to do. I feel so bad.

I think your idea of a Grandparent Thread is wonderful. Perhaps, that could be put into place.

Many, Many Thanks
Cathy




I do agree we need to add a grandparent thread on here. There were some days that I felt that my mother took my sons death worse than I did. Grandparents get a double wammy first loosing their grandbaby and second watching their own children fall to pecies.
Welcome Cathy I think you will bring insight on the family aspect that we as the parents of lossing children may over look. Sending prayer for your family.

[Lyssa Sauer]

Cathy I kind of understand where your coming from my mother is my best friend so our pain together we feel each others on top of that.
As for the cat I just want you to know I have two other children besides Payton and we thought getting something to help celebrate but watch grow would not only be healing for my kids but also us, so we got a dog a month after we lost our son and I do have to tell you it did our family a great deal of "healing". No pressure however just wanted to give you a perspective on that.
I will be talking to some of the founders about adding a Grandparent Thread especially for Grandparents.
Hugs to you and your family
Lyssa