Thank you so much for your opening comments of April 12, 2016, regarding time healing wounds. My wife of 34 years died of bone, brain and liver cancer after a two year battle. I saw the woman I love go through an excruciating mental, physical and spiritual ordeal which is hard to describe unless you have gone through it. I thought for the longest time that something was wrong with me because the after effects of that traumatic two year period continued to linger. Friends and family repeatedly told me, "things will get better over time." However, they are wrong and you are right.

Time is not an elixir for the pain of losing her. For me the mourning I have experienced is a lonely and exhausting ordeal in its own right which time itself does not heal. I am a lawyer who has been successful and confident, naturally resilient, as you say. But I have not bounced back and was truly wondering what might be wrong with me.

Your words really struck home. Thank you for reminding me that mental strength must be developed. I get up every day and even though I feel like just crawling into a hole. I put one foot in front of the other and remind myself of the many good things in my life. Seize the day! 

Your friend and listener,

Kevin



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