Always with You : Facing Life after Loss

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780340960189
• ISBN10: 0340960183
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2008-09-18
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Summary

On April 13th, 2004, Gloria Hunniford's 41-year-old daughter, Caron Keating, died after a secret seven year battle with cancer. The world that had changed with Caron's diagnosis, now shattered. Life had been cruelly interrupted, a black hole opened in Gloria' heart, she was consumed with the unimaginable grief that the loss of a child brings, and she was aloneor so she felt. Within days of Caron's death letters started to arrive. People who had lost their children felt compelled to write. Strangers understood what she was going through often more than the family and friends standing next to her. There were many, many dark days but the letters kept coming and somehow she managed to do the impossible. Wake up everyday, get out of bed, breathe. The black hole is still there, sometimes as big as ever, but she has found a way to live with it, around it. This is the story of how Gloria and her family survived Caron's death, but it is not only her story. It is written for those who held her while she raged. It is written for all those people who helped her through that first terrible year by writing, but mostly it is written for the many thousands who didn't. Grief is lonely, but as this book shows, you are not alone. Death affects us all at some point. Gloria will never again be the carefree woman she once was, the loss of a loved one is always with you, but so are the living. This is how she found her way back to them.

Author Biography

Gloria Hunniford was the first woman to have her own daily show on BBC Radio 2 and went on to present Holiday, Songs of Praise, and most recently The Heaven and Earth Show. After daughter Caron Keating died of breast cancer in 2004, Gloria set up the Caron Keating Foundation to raise money for people affected by cancer.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. 1
The B*****d Cancer	p. 7
13 April, 6.15 p.m., Caron Leaves Her Body	p. 20
Beyond Pain	p. 33
The Funeral	p. 58
My Selfish Grief	p. 85
An Alien World	p. 108
The Mask of Survival	p. 122
Finding the Positive	p. 143
Those Unspeakable Firsts	p. 162
The Uninvited Guest	p. 186
Living on the Lips of the Living	p. 211
Permission to Live	p. 225
Same But Different	p. 240
Time Does Not Heal	p. 259
Hope, Faith and Quantum Physics	p. 277
Epilogue: Back to the Beginning	p. 300
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