It took more than a decade to explain the sudden death of my precious teenage son | Karen Gardner

Although I wasn’t aware of feeling responsible, the lifting of a sense of heavy burden indicates otherwise

Sitting in the cardiologist’s rooms, awaiting the results of a genetic test that might explain the sudden death of my eldest child, I could not then have imagined the impact on my world of what was to come.

It’s 14 years since Tom died one sunny summer day, but my quest to find a plausible explanation never subsided and I never got used to not knowing why, as I had to get used to living without him.

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