sunflowersintherain thank you for telling us about your daughter. I hope you can continue to post here. I truly admire you for working with TCF- I can imagine it must be really really tough for you sometimes. If it gets too tough, you know that you can stop or even stop for a while and go back when you are ready. It is important that you have some support as well. I know someone who worked for the samaritans for years and just had to stop for a while as it all got too much, she related to the callers so much that she ended up feeling at risk herself, but after a break of a couple of years she went back and continues to do some work for them.
My daughter died in April 09 after she got hyper acute liver failure from a cold/flu virus, had a liver transplant which failed, had a biopsy which led to severe blood loss and brain damage, had another transplant of a new liver which was too big for her body and the wrong blood type and 2 months after that got another cold virus, then pneumonia, then had a cardiac arrest, and died a few days later.. I hate the word virus!!
The thing with TCF is that when I was newly bereaved, it seemed like such an effort having to join and pay etc etc to get access to their website that I never bothered, it was all too much at the time. It's a shame that it felt so blocked off really but I think that is how I stumbled across this thread instead and met all you lovely ladies here!
shabs are you able to have a power-nap before Lewis arrives? or failing that, a double espresso and some chocolate ?