Capture Your Grief, Day Twenty

Day 20: Charity/Organization
October 20,2012

Since losing our baby, M.E.N.D. has been the most helpful and compassionate place I feel safe. It is an amazing support group that meets once a month and I really don't know where my husband and I would be without the kind and wonderful families there. I hope that someday I can do more for this amazing organization and be a deeper part of it all!

For Gabriels first heavenly birthday I have been thinking a lot about ways to give back. I have thought about making special necklaces or bracelets to be included in the memory boxes given out at our local hospital. I have been thinking about shopping around for books for our local library and schools so I can donate them in Gabriels memory. I plan to ask my close friends and family not to send gifts or money or flowers around Gabriels birthday, but instead asking them to donate to M.E.N.D. in his memory.

I want to turn my pain and grief into something beautiful, I want to do something in Gabriels honor that will bring comfort to someone else. I would love to find a way to get an advocate program started for parents who are at the hospital when they lose their child. Someone to inform them of their rights, to be more of a friend that offers support. Calls the NILMDTS organization even. I want to do something good, I want something good to cone from the all to short of a life we had with Gabriel.