THE MOURNING AFTER NATASHA

 

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      • Katrina says, I greatly appreciate and completely understand because I lost my beautiful 12 year old son Terry to a horrible monster brain tumor …
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CONTENTS

Latest Posts:

• I Never Wanted You to Label My Late Child a ‘Hero’ (Published on Huffington Post and Mothering)
• ‘Fault in Our Stars’ Doctor Critic Does Kids with Cancer a Disservice (Published on KevinMD)
• A Race Against Time (Published on Modern Loss)
• The First Time I Laughed After the Death of My Daughter (Published on Mothering)
• The Grieving Parent and the Pressure to be Positive
• Finding My Tribe: A Place for Bereaved Parents to Belong (Published on Mothering)

Before the Storm:

• Flashback: What I Saw in the Hospital Elevator
• My daughter’s diagnosis. An Uneasy Alliance (Published in the Washington Post)
• Welcome to Pediatric Cancerland: How it Feels for the First 24 Hours
• Post-Traumatic Stress in Parents of Kids With Cancer (Published in the San Francisco Chronicle)
• Brain tumor recurrence. The Beast is Back (Published in the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation’s newsletter)
• You Know You’re a Cancer Parent Pro When … (Published on the Huffington Post)
• Cancer Etiquette: Dealing With Blundering Well-Wishers
• Desperate Measures: Buying Pot for my 11-Year-Old (Published on the Huffington Post)
• What I Wish I’d Said to My Child’s Doctor (Published on KevinMD and Cancer Knowledge Network)
• The Puzzling Partnership of Cancer Parent and Social Worker
• High ‘Scanxiety’: Portrait of a Brain Tumor Parent on the Brink
• Descent
• The Last ‘I Love You’ (Published on the Huffington Post and iVillage Australia)
• My Daughter’s Disease — Via E-mail:
• Speech at Natasha’s memorial. The Essence of Natasha

Immediate Loss:

• The Sting of Bereavement Cards
• What Not to Say to Bereaved Parents PLEASE! (Published on the Huffington Post)
• Handling casual conversation in the grip of grief. How Are You?
• Should we talk with terminal children about death? Finding Natasha’s Last Letter to her Sister
• 6 Mistakes People Make When a Friend’s Child Dies (Published on the Huffington Post and Mothering)
• Return to ‘normality.’ Sunday at the Mall — Minus 1
• In Natasha’s Room …
• Why this mom is a little miffed with St. Jude hospital. Hey Jude, Don’t Forget the Other Heroes
• Living With the Loss of a Child: Update at 14 Weeks
• A Race Against Time (Published on Modern Loss)

Living with Grief:

• • Reflections of a Bereaved Cancer Mom: Regrets and Gratitude
  • Brain Tumor as a ‘Gift’? That’s Codswallop
  • Message in a Lunchbox (Published on the Huffington Post and Brain, Child: The Magazine for Thinking Mothers)
  • Why this Skeptic is Contemplating a Psychic Connection, Part I
  • Reflections from a Meeting with a Psychic, Part II
  • An 8-year-old Mourns a Much-Loved Sister (Published on Mothering)
  • A 13th Birthday Without the Birthday Girl
  • Those Bolshie Bereaved Parents: Should We Shut Up and be Grateful?
  • Do Bereaved Parents Have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
  • Update 6 Months After Loss of Child: ‘You Will Always Know her Name’
  • The Heartbreak of  ‘How Are The Kids?‘
  • The Grieving Parent as the Abstinent Alcoholic
  • Why This Bereaved Mom Can’t Bear Back-to-School Season: (Published on the Huffington Post)
  • Does my Other Daughter Have a Brain Tumor, Too?
  • 8 Months After Losing my Child: 5 Things That Help; 4 That Don’t
  • Should parents share their grief with a surviving sibling? The Day that Lady Gaga Made me Cry
  • A Bereaved Parent’s Plea: ‘I Wish You’d Say …’ (Published on Mothering)
  • ‘Tis the Season for Grieving
  • What Bereaved Parents Want From You
  • Searching for Other Bereaved Parents: Why Aren’t Hospitals Helping?
  • Grief Crashes a Thanksgiving Getaway

Grief and Reflections After the First Year:

• • • A Bereaved Mom Braces for Christmas
    • 6 Surprising Realizations a Year after the Death of my Daughter (Published on the Huffington Post and Mothering)
    • Treasured: Remnants of My Late Daughter’s Life (Published on Mothering)
    • A Bereaved Parent’s (tongue-in-cheek) Guide to Job Postings
    • A Grieving Sibling Gets a Message From her Sister (Published on Mothering)
    • Dreams of a Bereaved Mother
    • Finding My Tribe: A Place for Bereaved Parents to Belong (Published on Mothering)
    • The Grieving Parent and the Pressure to be Positive
    • The First Time I Laughed After the Death of My Daughter (Published on Mothering)
    • I Never Wanted You to Label My Late Child a ‘Hero’ (Published on Huffington Post and Mothering)

News Stories:

• • • ‘Fault in Our Stars’ Doctor Critic Does Kids with Cancer a Disservice (Published on KevinMD)
    • Should Doctors Tell Cancer Parents to Quit Chasing Quackery? (Published on KevinMD and the Huffington Post)
    • Yes, You SHOULD Question Community Fundraisers for Kids With Cancer
    • Aaron Eckhart, Getting into Character Shouldn’t Mean Betraying Bereaved Parents
    • What Hospitals Should Learn From Tragic Jahi(Published in the San Francisco Chronicle) and The Tragic Case of Jahi McMath: Why Children’s Hospitals Should Stop Marketing Miracles (Published on the Huffington Post)
    • The Tragic Tale of Another Natasha: How did 13 Docs Miss a Teen’s Fatal Tumor? (Published on the Huffington Post)
    • Will New CEO of Famed Kids Cancer Nonprofit Get a $1 Million Salary, Too?
    • The Dying Tradition of the Doctor’s Condolence Letter: ‘Even the Vet Sent a Card When the Dog Died’
    • C’mon Hollywood Moms, Stand up for Kids with Cancer!
    • Renegade Neurosurgeons: Patient Champions or Charlatans?
    • Childhood Cancer Awareness Month: Hall of Fame, Hall of Shame (Published on the Huffington Post)
    • Kids With Cancer: 8 Brutal Truths to Choke on (Published on the Huffington Post)
    • ‘Pet Project’ Offers Hope to Patients with Brain Tumor(Published in the San Francisco Chronicle)
    • Hold off on the Halo for Angelina Jolie, Please!
    • Shocking Pink: A Bereaved Brain Tumor Parent’s Perspective on Breast Cancer ‘Overawareness’ Similar version posted here on the Huffington Post
    • Why the War Against Childhood Cancer is Far From Over (Published in the San Francisco Chronicle)
    • Oh, No, Sheryl Crow, Not Cell Phones Again
    • Kids With Cancer — Where’s the Outcry?
    • ‘Rhoda’ vs. Ted Kennedy: Speaking up (or not) for Brain Cancer
    • Would you Support a Children’s Cancer Nonprofit that Pays its CEO Half a Million?

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