Another note: A week ago, I was feeling terrible because it would have been my deceased son's 18th birthday.
I had been reading a mini-bio about a retired professional athlete who wrote a trend-setting best-seller that made him far more famous, and how he had become depressed for several years when his child died in an accident. I've read his book four or five times, starting when I was 12, and for some reason, I emailed the link on his web site about hiring him as a speaker, telling him what I was experiencing and asking him how he dealt with the death of his daughter. He called me back two hours later, and gave me some helpful advice.
Just shows you that people who connect with you/ feel or have felt the same pain will reach out if you reach out to them.
