No one ever knows how to grieve.

I think I've grieved every loss in a different way. My dad passed away 26 years ago. That was the first, the hardest, the longest. Mom died 6 years ago. I lost my best friend, my counsel, my support. And I grieved harder than when dad went.Last fall my son died. I honestly thought I would die. But then my other son got so upset that I had to snap out of it and "be here" for him.And now hubby. How do I grieve his passing? There have been many wonderful moments in our life. I posted the bad ones here. I posted the reality of diabetes. I truly want to just forget all of that and focus on the good. I want to remember him as the man I loved, the man I fell in love with - the stable, sane, good sugar level guy. Yet it is diabetes that killed him.The death certificate showed the reason for death as "respiratory failure".  And chronic heart failure as the secondary cause. Which is correct. He had a heart attack. And then he quit breathing. The very last thing was that he just stopped breathing. Respiratory failure. You and I know that it was the high sugar content that ate away at his body, clogged his arteries, caused the heart attach which caused him to stop breathing. But to the world - nowhere does it say diabetes. How sad.And I have absolutely no say in what goes on the death certificate. That is left up to the hospice doctor. And they admitted him as a ch...
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