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My name is Rhonda. I'm a registered nurse, for the last 20 years, that has not been able to work since the day I learned of my daughter's death by suicide 4-12-13. (She actually died 4-11-13 and her body was not found until the 12th) Me and my husband have been married for 32 years and he's a wonderful man. We grieve in different ways. He works, I write. This is my journey through this horrible land of losing a child..
Top Posts & Pages
- Eulogy for a Suicide
- The Ignorance About Depression
- Dear Kaitlyn: I'm Going Back to Work Now
- Please don't send me messages like this
- Existential Depression In Gifted Children
- Allie Brosh on Depression
- In Memory of my daughter Kaitlyn Elkins 1-19-90 to 4-11-13
- A Father's Grief Over His 15 Year Old Son's Suicide
- Care Kits for People Bereaved by Suicide
- An Important article about another Medical Student's Suicide
Blogs I Follow
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- caitybee370's Blog
- Does this news have pictures?
- 68 Ways to Remember You
- Recovery Starts Here! A Gambling Free and Sober Blog~Sharing Hope In Recovery One Day At A Time.
- Storiform.com
- Living, Breathing, and Surviving, and Coping with Mental Illness
- laurnaguistepublicist
- Bipolar in Medical School
- healingmylittlegirl
- This Is Your Sign!
- "Welcome To ~Cat Lyon's Reading Den"
- Matthew Fried's Blog
- I fall to pieces
- Gone Catawampus
- MonstersInsideMyHead
- Means on toast
- I Survived a Murder Attack -- My Family Didn't
- johncoyote
- climbing up the polka dot tree
- A Haze in the Starlight
- Hollowed Out...
- MourningAmyMarie
- Happy, Seriously.
- Despair to Deliverance
- Wexler Family Psychiatry
- Dear Daniel
- Libba Bray
- Losing a child to Suicide
- Escaping Elegance
- The Suburban Sister
- James' World 2
- James' Funnies
- Minuscule Moments of Inspiration
- Uncle Spike's Adventures
- Shirley's Heaven
- I Am My Own Island
- A Mother's Grief and Learning to Live Again
- The 50-something life of a Southern gal
- A MOTHERS' SORROW
- Zachary, Forever 21
- The Infinite Fountain
- The Mindset Effect
- Legionwriter
- Mental Health Stigma--Neurofool
- Andyo1976's Blog
- FracturedGalaxies
- Americana Injustica
- Sad Mum Happy Mum
- An unwanted W
Tag Archives: sadness
A Waste?
There are many words, phrases and thoughts that fill my mind many times a day pertaining to my daughter Kaitlyn’s suicide. One of these words is something that many people that have lost loved ones to suicide dislike very much … Continue reading
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Tagged bipolar, children, death, depression, despair, family, grief, loss, mental health, mental illness, mood disorders, sadness, suicide, suicide prevention
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In Remembrance of Kaitlyn Elkins by Wake Forest School of Medicine
Every long once in a while, I like to put this link up that Wake Forest School of Medicine made on their online newsletter in memory of Kaitlyn. It continuously runs on that newsletter. They created a fund for their … Continue reading
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Tagged bipolar, bleakness, children, death, depression, despair, doctors, family, grief, loss, Medical school, mental health, mental illness, physicians, psychiatry, psychology, sadness, suicide, suicide prevention, Wake Forest School of Medicine
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Acceptance?
The other day I had a friend tell me that the problem I was having is that I have not accepted Kaitlyn’s death. I have my other child, my husband, my home and all that love me and I simply … Continue reading
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Tagged bipolar, children, death, depression, family, grief, loss, mental health, mental illness, psychology, sadness, suicide
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I Feel Good About My Book
I hope those of you that subscribe to my blog, or those that cruise in here to read a little, do not get tired of my writing about my book. It is not my intention to brag or anything like … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, author, authors, bipolar, books, children, death, depression, family, gifted children, grief, Kaitlyn Elkins, loss, Medical school, mental health, mental illness, sadness, suicide, suicide prevention, writers
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Poetry From a 13 Year Old Kaitlyn
got another gift today. One of Kaitlyn’s friends, Summer Britt, that she was friends with growing up in school met me today so I could sign her copy of my book. When I met her we talked for a long … Continue reading
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Tagged adolescence, bipolar, children, death, depression, family, grief, loss, mental health, mental illness, poetry, sadness, school, suicide
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Is anything I ever thought to be true, true after all?
When Kaitlyn’s father and I used to go see her at her apartment in the town she went to medical school in, every time we would leave to go back home, before we would even get out of the apartment … Continue reading
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Tagged bipolar, children, daughter, death, depression, family, grief, loss, mental health, mental illness, sadness, suicide
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No other words needed
“And can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one creature makes a void in my heart, so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up.” … Continue reading
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Tagged death, depression, Dickens, grief, loss, mental health, mental illness, sadness, suicide
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