Gerard Point of View

My first experience with the utter devastation that can come with the loss of a loved one was when my mother died. My brothers and I agreed that Dad had never fully recovered from that loss, and although he recovered and started living again, he still hadn't gotten over his loss, and would never let another woman into his life.

There are many ways to experience loss, and my mother's death wasn't the only time I felt like my heart had been ripped from my chest. The day of my father's accident, I was reminded. They also reminded me that it was something to avoid. It...