Comments on: Grief is a Sucker Punch

By: Jill Wells

Jill Wells — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 02:10:56 +0000

Life and grief are lived day by day. Thank you for making the choice to share your day to day ways of living your life through this.

PS. My brother in St.Simons Is. in Ga. was here to visit a few weeks ago. I gave him one of the flower necklaces from April’s party to take home. He took it to the beach and sent it out with the tide which happened to be at sunset. She does indeed go on.

By: Lorena

Lorena — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:36:21 +0000

Hi there,

I just ran into your site while googling Avastin & Abraxane, as I’m currently battling metatistic breast cancer at age 30 for the second time. April was such a trooper and so are you. She sounds like she was a beautiful person to be around.

Thank you for sharing your experience with others. In these moments where we think we can’t go any further, random acts of kindness (in this case, a random link on Google), come our way; and those random acts of kindness are the ones that give us that extra “ump”, and remind us that everything will be okay one way or another.

Again thank you. My thoughts are for you.

Lorena from Houston, TX

By: Lisa Marshall

Lisa Marshall — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 02:23:51 +0000

Cousin Mac,

You are constantly in our thoughts and prayers. Always remember that you have experienced the greatest gift of all, true love. I have always admired our grandparents’ relationship and know they would be so proud of the strength and courage that you and April endured.

If you ever get the urge to throw a sucker punch, learn how to overcome it! (Bryan is a great punching bag)

Love always,
Lisa

By: Debra

Debra — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:44:03 +0000

Carole Ann Borges: The tears over Angie spill often at odd times. How wonderful of nature to allow us to let emotional pain seep out slowly. If not the tears I shed would have been a tsunami. One that could easily have drowned me.

Mac, Carole is a wonderful local writer whose daughter, Angie, a few years older than April, passed away from pancriatic cancer a few months ago. She writes about her grief, amongst other topics, on Facebook.

By: Debra

Debra — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:31:50 +0000

Once again, you combine sadness with humor and resignation with action. What you share here, about identifying unexpected sucker punches and a replacement habit, helps many who are dealing with any kind of struggle. I agree with Anne. Get published! You continue to inspire…

By: Karla P

Karla P — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:10:11 +0000

Your ability to find something positive about every situation is remarkable. It’s an awesome way to live. I don’t know how you do it.

By: Mac

Mac — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:19:13 +0000

Thanks, Anne – maybe one day. I really appreciate yours and everyone else’s love and support.

By: Anne Horner

Anne Horner — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 03:53:47 +0000

Mac, all of us are either facing or going to face grief at sometime in our lives. Would you consider the possibility of someday gathering your wonderful writings in a book that would certainly be helpful to those enduring feelings similar to yours? You are a true inspiration, and I just know that April would be so very proud of you. I don’t know exactly what words she would choose, but it could be along the lines of “… way to go, honey, fight those sucker punches the best way you can!”