🕯 A Place To Be With OTHERS Who Are Grieving! WE support each other.

[Spring2025]

THIS GROUP IS OPEN TO ALL GRIEVERS NO MATTER HOW LONG IT HAS BEEN [years,days].

To participate, click on reply button at bottom of this post. Enter your comment. Click on reply again.

Luv,

Nicole  🤗🤗🤗  (Grief Forum)

[Spring2025]

Jonibee @jonibee , thank you for chatting. Sadly thanks to AARP we have lost members. Not sure IF Cadee @Cadee2719 will be back. 😭

I am hoping Marcy @MarcyW882921 is just busy as usual.

Luv,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief & Loss Forum)

[jonibee]

My heartfelt sympathy to those families of the members that have passed..May they rest in peace..

[MarcyW882921]

Yes, busy as usual. I had a performance over the weekend, attended one class today, and another one is scheduled for tomorrow.

Marcy

[Spring2025]

Hi Marcy @MarcyW882921 , just so you know - Cadee @Cadee2719 sent me a PM = she has had it with AARP and NOT returning to group. 😭

Girl, so sad AARP no longer CARES about people. 😤

Thanks for stopping by. I plan to let group phase out, but will TREASURE an AWESOME 2024.

Lol, we all had such a good time here.

You have my email and mailing address to stay in contact. 👍

Luv,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief & Loss Forum)

[MarcyW882921]

❤️❤️❤️ to you Nicole, to the friends I have met on this forum, and for all the support I received on my journey! I am truly grateful.

Marcy

[Spring2025]

I MISS you and Sadie 🐕 Julie @JulieT507376 🤗🤗🤗

[JulieT507376]

Hello Friends!

Sadie and I are staying busy with travels and friends visiting from Arizona and Canada!  This week more company from Minnesota.  I’m blessed my life is so busy.  I continue to fiercely miss Mark.  He is present in my every day.  I tried to post a photo of Sadie for everyone but for some reason the attachment button wasn’t there!  Maybe next time!  For now we are in two feet of snow and freezing -10 degrees F weather!  

[Spring2025]

Oh my goodness Julie @JulieT507376 , -10!!! 😱

GOOD FOR YOU that you are staying "busy" and MISSING Mark is ALWAYS going to be a part of your life.

He CONTINUES to be a part of you and Sadie's life.

YES, this site is falling apart along with software/bots taking over. Oh well, maybe one day AARP will CARE like they use to. 🙄

Thanks for TRYING to post a picture of Sadie. 🙃

Well Ms. Traveler & Hotel Owner, PROUD OF YOU!!!

Mister 🐈 sends his luv for his girl Sadie 🐕💛.

YOU MADE my night VERY SPECIAL.

Luv,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief & Loss Forum)

[Spring2025]

‌‌‌‌‌🤔‌‌‌‌‌  Any TOPICS you would like the GROUP to discuss? Or questions? Or anything YOU feel may HELP another griever?

Thanks,

Nicole  ‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌  (Grief Forum)

[Spring2025]

Everyone, I just received a PM from OUR Cadee @Cadee2719 💛🤗

Cadee WE MISS YOU!!!

[Spring2025]

WE have learn't so much from each other as we pick up the pieces.

So pull up a chair and JOIN us.

EVERY day is full of "possibilities" IF we NEVER give up on FIGURING out what is BEST for us.

There is NO right or wrong way about this journey.

WE will ALWAYS miss them.

WE will have good and bad days/nights.

CELEBRATE the good ones.

BE KIND to yourself the bad ones.

Find SUPPORT that meets YOUR needs.

I am NOT a Group Person like others are and have NOT done the Couneling. As I AGE, I have become more CAREFUL with what I share and who I let into my life.

This group saved my life.

Folks I probably will never meet in REAL LIFE but have been there for me. 💛🤗

OUR WELCOME MAT is always in front of our door. 🙃

[Spring2025]

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS 💛🤗

Oh my goodness, just looked out and saw one of my neighbors clearing SNOW off my car!!! She looks like she is in her 30's. I THANKED HER. Lol, I was DREADING dealing with it = takes forever at age 67 this year. And we will NOT mention the aches and pain that NIGHT at bedtime. 🤣😂 Getting old guys. 🙄

📸 Picture Attached

[Spring2025]

Members Helping Members, a place to help each other on OUR HEALING JOURNEY.

Some of us, it has been just days.

Others, years.

Grief has NO timetable and ALL are welcome!!!

Luv,

Nicole  ‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌  (Grief Forum)

[Spring2025]

WE talk about OUR lives before our loss - our loss and life after our loss.

Some of us have family and/or friends in OUR lives. While others donot.

Some of us have PETS who give us a REASON to get out of bed. Hey, Mister [my cat] is so NOT missing a meal or his "cuddle" time. My boy. ‌💛‌

Stop by to chat and/or read - it will FILL you up, comfort and may make you giggle. Yes, WE still are grieving while CREATING a new life. A life where WE HONOR luv ones lost with OUR HEALING. ‌🤗‌‌🤗‌‌🤗‌

[Spring2025]

OUR Kim who has been "missing" since LAST YEAR August 2024 just posted in the Grief & Loss Forum.

Please stop by to SUPPORT her with a comment.

And check out Beasley 🐕 and daughter's wedding PICTURES. OUR boy is HUGE!!! 😱

The link below will take you to her post. Lol, it tales about a minute to work.

https://community.aarp.org/t5/Grief-Loss/Still-Here-and-Pushing-Through/m-p/2591621

Thanks guys,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief Forum)

[Spring2025]

📸  Attachment for YOU  🤗🤗🤗

[Spring2025]

😴  Goodnight All!!!

Stay safe and warm for those of us dealing with the snow. 😭

Sleep fills us UP, so try to catch the zzz's when and where you can.  🤗🤗🤗

[Spring2025]

GROUP DISCUSSION!!!

Any goals for 2025? 🤔

Me, continue to walk inside my Studio Apt EVERY DAY for an hour. Impressed my Medicare doctor was correct = pre-diabetes went bye bye. 👍 Of course the Low Carb Mediterrean diet she also suggested helped. 👍

Continue to LEAVE my apt Mondays thru Thursdays EVERY WEEK. My mechanic said "retiring" my 2006 Hyundai Elantra when I did was killing the battery. 🙄 I would ONLY drive it for weekly Walmart grocery trip, medical and gas. NOW it is a "challenge" to find somewhere "interesting" to go. But all this has really FILLED me up. Lol, cannot wait to checkout NEW places locally. 🙃

[Spring2025]

‌‌‌‌🙏‌‌‌‌  OUR PRAYER LIST!!!

Anyone need to be ADDED?

Nicole  ‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌🤗‌‌‌‌  (Grief Forum)

[Spring2025]

I AM THINKING OF YOU!!! 🤗🤗🤗

Julie @JulieT507376 and Sadie 🐕, Lisa @LisaJP6763, MC @mc6844, Susan @SusanR479241.

[Spring2025]

I AM THINKING ABOUT YOU!!! 🤗🤗🤗

Jonibee @jonibee , Shirley @sfsmith56 , Marcy @MarcyW882921 , Cadee @Cadee2719 , MKK @MkK700720 

[Spring2025]

🙃 Good Morning All!!!

How are you doing?

WE MADE IT THROUGH ANOTHER NIGHT. 👍

Lol, some of us are feeling like a truck "ran" over us. Yes, another "rough" night. I actually slept last night for the 1st time in days. GRATEFUL.

Well, 2025 has certainly made up for all those  WINTERS we didnot get any MAJOR snow here in Cave Spring, Virginia.

And yours truly learn't her LESSON about my HILL last month. Have NEVER not been able to get up my hill. Still LEARNING about Winter after MOVING from Florida. Come on SPRING!!! We had some days in the 60's last week. Even CLEANED and waxed my car (handwash and waxed,my therapy).

Anyway TODAY I am getting ALL errands done and STAYING inside my Studio Apt tomorrow (Tuesday) and Wednesday.

On the OTHER hand 2025 brought some GOOD NEWS. 👍

So RELIEVED and I know she is too = daughter will NOT lose her Townhouse in Florida. Teased her about having 3 jobs instead of the 1 engineering job she use to have at L3Harris. Ironic I was pregnant with jer 38 years ago working for them in Florida. Back then they had NOT merged, was just Harris. Lived in Palm Bay, Florida and worked at Cape Canaveral. Yes, like my daughter - they lost a Government contract = major layoff. She was age 10 at the time. Melbourne where she was born and living has been hit really bad with these layoffs. Anyway, between her NEW jobs as an Al Tutor (working from home), part-time at Michaels (was seasonal last year,now regular part-timer) and maintaining a website for a non-profit (work from home) she is back on track.

Question for you guys. I have an OLD Samsumg Galaxy J3 my daughter had bought for me in 2018 (when she was finally able to pry my much loved Flip Phone out of my fingers). And YES, should have UPDATED like yesterday. But I have agreed that THIS DECEMBER I will. Guys, I hate phones, NEVER one to be on it. Anyway, any RECOMMENDATIONS on a replacement? Lol, getting OLDER we NEED to SEE stuff. I LUV my Galaxy J3 and had bought a battery last year when the ORIGINAL one had died. So here I am all "stressed" out TRYING to find my local T-Mobile location so they can REPLACE the battery. Lol, I am sure my already HIGH blood pressure was higher by the time I found it. GRATEFUL the two "youngsters" were NICE after I explained I had searched the internet,YouTube and still could NOT get the phone BACK off. 😭

In ending, growing OLD I guess. Had a VERY PAINFUL ultrasound done on my LEFT leg which has decided to cramp all the way up to my thigh. Test said my "circulation" was OKAY. 👍 But I still worry that it will happen while DRIVING. 😱 No need to run over someone. So far it happens "randomly" at night. Hell to get out of bed to WALK it off and tears are in my eyes..Yes, the s.it HURTS and lasts about 15 minites. Lol, feels like FOREVER!!!

Everyone, remember - OUR LUV ONES ARE ALWAYS WITH US.

*** Usually I proofread before posting, but it is nearly 8am ET for me. Need to shower, wash hair and head out BEFORE snow storm arrives. ***

Luv,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief Forum)

[jonibee]

Does the town sand the road so going up won't be such a challenge?..Here in MA we have lots of hills hete and there some negotiable others no and people who live there park at the bottom where ever they can it can be bad if one car doesn't make it and starts to slide backwards. Hopefully Spring if almost ready to make an appearance in March...Ha

[Spring2025]

Hi Jonibee @jonibee , the county treats and plows the road at the bottom of hill. The side road is owned by state 🙄 and gets cleared whenever they get here. 😤

[Spring2025]

📋 I just added an AARP article to the Grief & Loss forum.

Use link below to go to this forum.

https://community.aarp.org/t5/Grief-Loss/bd-p/GriefLoss

[Spring2025]

Senior Moment - forgot to share. Guess what. Per this year's Medicare Bloodwork, I am NO longer pre-diabetic!!!

My walking EVERY DAY inside my Studio Apt & low carb mediterrean diet (followed my Medicare doctor's suggestion) paid off. 🙃

Anyone have any UPDATES to share? 🤔

[MarcyW882921]

Nicole,

This is great news! Congratulations on your diligence in taking care of yourself. It has paid off for you!

Marcy

[Spring2025]

Thanks Marcy @MarcyW882921 💛

Luv,

Nicole 🤗🤗🤗 (Grief & Loss Forum)

[Spring2025]

📸 Picture Attached. Mister sends his luv. 🐈💛