Are You Here?
8 min readSep 21, 2021
At times I am sure you are with me. The rest of the time, I am hopeful.
I spent the last year of my life in a state of anticipatory grief. None of it prepared me for the real thing.
It happened so fast. Yet, I am thankful for the two-week process.
We were alone in Phoenix and had been for months. I took Tom to the emergency room at the Mayo…