I lost my friend (LONG, sorry)

[zurgswife]

Thanks for sharing....my stepmom just passed and she too is an angel without any improvements..

 

[MAC3]

So Sorry Nikki. What a tragedy. It's so hard not being able to say goodbye. I feel terribly for everyone especially her parents. I have an only daughter and can't imagine how heart breaking it is to them (or anyone to lose a child).

She has quite a smile!

Lisa

 

[poohandwendy]

Wow, that is so heartbreaking! My husband also had a friend who died of the same sort of aneurism (also in his 20s). It is so hard to deal with the sudden death of someone who is so 'young and full of life'. My thoughts and prayers go out to you and her family...

 

[Keli]

I'm so sorry for your loss.

And I'm sorry to hear about your stepmom Zurgswife. I didn't realized she had passed.

 

[MsDisney23]

I am so sorry for your loss. May the Peace of Lord be with you. Prayer's for you and all. She is still with you, in your heart. Hug's,

 

[Kimickey]

I truly understand your pain. I too lost my bestfriend. I was 15 she was 17. Way too young to die. I'm now 26 and still feel the pain of her lost. I know our words right now will not heal your pain, but over time things do get better. Just know that your friend is looking down upon you and loves you dearly!

Keep smiling

Kim

 

[Dan Murphy]

So very, very sorry, Nik, to read of yours and everyone's loss with Michelle's passing. So sad. The memory of her life qualities will live forever, a difference she has made in many. 's

Dan

 

[kimber79]

So sorry to hear of your loss.

 

[ennazus]

((((hugs)))))

 

[niks81]

Thank you guys for all of your kind words.

Death is hard for everyone. Young or old, distant or close, it really doesn't matter. It's a loss of life and a loss of someone that impacted you in some way. What I have personally had the hardest time with is her young age....and that isn't to undermine deaths of anyone that is older....but I feel like she was cheated out of things she wanted so badly....to become a wife, to become a mother, to buy her first home. And now that she's gone its the people that were left behind that continue to be cheated--her fiance, her parents.....nothing will be the same for them again--ever.

I sound like a selfish brat and I know it. I believe in God, and I believe that she truly is in a better place....a perfect angel. So I know I should be saying that I am happy that she is in that better place....and I am....but I am also just devastated for her family.

I didn't know her parents before she passed away, primarily because we were coworkers. I wrote her parents a letter the day after the funeral and I now keep in touch with them. Her stepfather had made a comment to me that they are scared for the days ahead when the phone stops ringing and the notes stop coming and they are left alone to deal with the anguish and grief. They wanted her friends to keep in touch because that is all they have left, but they know many won't because it is just hard. Keeping that in mind I decided that the one thing I could do in my own way to thank Michelle for being such a good friend to me was to keep in touch with her parents, even though it sometimes is very hard on me emotionally. And so I do, and I can tell that they are very grateful. Yesterday her stepdad replied and this was the last line: "I know my writing is a bit jerky but my proof writer is no longer with me. She's more than likely working on the next edition of the Bible." This was somewhat comical, since Michelle's job was a writer!


zurgswife---I'm really sorry to hear about your stepmom...I didn't realize she had passed away, I must have missed it I hope you are doing ok.

 

[niks81]

This is so ironic....since I was just posting about her and all I just got an email from the crew at my old work saying they had found the pictures I so desperately wanted them to find! We made 3 scrapbooks for Michelle's family. We compiled every picture we could find of her and also collected stories about her from everyone in the company....they really turned out nice. ANYWAYS, there were these pictures I knew I had taken of her and our other coworker putting together a mannequin for our skyway display....we couldn't find them anywhere to put in the scrapbook.

But they found them just now.....these are funny! She was laughing so hard over having to clothe the naked mannequin LOL

I've never seen her laugh so hard in my life

 

[floridafam]

So sorry.

 

[C.Ann]

So sad.. I actually cried when I read the passage she was reading in that book.. Wow! How ironic is that??

I'm so sorry for your loss - and for everyone who loved this young lady..

 

[flrose]

 

[Stepharoonie!]

 

[niks81]

So sad.. I actually cried when I read the passage she was reading in that book.. Wow! How ironic is that??

I know, it really is. But I am a firm believer that everything happens for a reason, and I think having the book open to that page was truly one of "those things".

Have any of you heard the songs "I Hope You Dance" Lyrics here or "I Can Only Imagine" Lyrics here ? Those are really inspirational songs and they played them at her funeral. Very suiting for Michelle.

 

[Mimi Q]

 

[Mercy]

I'm so sorry for your loss. Good friends are hard to come by.

It just goes to show we never know what turns life will take. It is so important to live each day to the fullest and to love and show respect for those around us.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

I'm sorry you have lost your friend at such a young age. I think you wrote a fitting tribute and I have a sense of what a great loss you've experienced. {{{HUGS}}}

 

[goofy4tink]

Please let me add my sympathies also. How very sad to lose someone that young and alive. She looked like a terrific person. You are a tribute to her by staying in touch with her family. That is something beyond plain ole friendship!!