Sorrow is like a precious treasure, shown only to friends.
African Proverb
Today for Show and Tell, I would like to share how fate and circumstance can touch and heal lives, including my own.
This past week, I was visiting a blog newly discovered during International Comment Leaving Week. Cara is a mother of three daughters including her firstborn, Emma born still eight years ago. Cara lives in a rural part of the United States with minimal resources for parents whose baby has died. In response to this need, Cara has been preparing a proposal to start an Infant Loss Bereavement and Support Group at her local hospital chartered by the National Share Organization. Cara posted about her endeavors and requested input on her proposal. (I don’t think she knows what she signed up for when she very innocently emailed me her draft proposal.) I asked her permission if she wanted my professional nursing and clinical managerial spin on it and she was kind enough (or a little crazy?) to allow me to provide feedback. I am very proud of Cara and my contribution to her efforts in caring for her community. She honors her family and all the lost babies, including mine.
This effort also reinforced how important it is to me that no parent suffers from a lack of support and sensitivity like I did after my own miscarriage seventeen years ago. I am glad to be part of this blogging community and even more so, humbled to be given the opportunity to honor and remember my own lost little one.
Post Script Sunday morning: I just took the dog for a walk on a glorious, sunny, cool morning and an Orange Monarch butterfly crossed our path. A coincidence? I think not. Thank you.
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8 comments:
Congrats to you for helping Cara out so much. I think her project is incredible.
Her project is so wonderful and I am so happy you had a part of it. Thank you.
What a wonderful and rewarding project. One of the things I'm most proud of in my life is having set up a network of infertility support groups here in Portugal.
Good luck to your friend!
Luv,
RAxx
(PS: I think I'm back.)
Very admirable job you did helping Cara and what a honorable project. i will go check it out now.
I have to say that blogging has helped me more than you can imagine with my infertility.
Thanks for being such a good blogger.
I am very proud of you both, as well. What an important bridge.
It's great to see ICLW forge connections like this! :)
Thanks for helping Cara. I've had three miscarriages and every one of them was different. Making sure there are resources out there for loss support, no matter where you live is very important!
I agree, Cara is doing a wonderful thing!
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