The most unimaginable pain.......
The loss of a child is one of those things that no parent wants to think about. My grandmother once told me that children should always outlive their parents; that it was the natural order of things. My grandmother had to bury one of her children, my uncle Roger Pierce, who passed away from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident when I was younger. I'll never ever forget the pain I saw in her eyes, and the eyes of my mom and her siblings. Today, someone I know had to make the decision to let their little one go. Gabriel was 6 years old and fought a brave battle with illness, and his little body couldn't fight the fight any longer. As a mother, nothing scares me more than the thought of losing my children. It's something that if I even consider, my stomach knots up and I begin to panic. I know that death is a natural part of life, but I want to go first. I don't want to have to lose one of them before I go. I work in the hea...