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Elder Abuse by Adult Children. Estimates indicate that one million elderly people are victims of domestic violence every year. Forty percent of cases occur when adult children victimize their parents. The victimization includes psychological, physical, and financial abuse. Adult children perpetrating elder abuse are more likely to inflict ...
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- You Know Your Own Triggers.
- The Shroud of Privacy Comes Back Over Your Life.
- You Feel Less alone.
- You Learn You Can Hold Pain and Joy at The Same time.
- There Will Be New Triggers You Didn’T Anticipate.
- Over Time, Fewer People Know What You Have lost.
- Things Still Sneak Up on You in Unexpected ways.
In the first years after Christopher died, I would have a panic attack when a yellow school bus drove by. The buses would reappear with the turning of the leaves for the start of each school year and I’d reflexively search for his face through their windows. But he wasn’t there. And there were other triggers. Christopher was born with failing kidne...
After any kind of death, you are at first an open, walking wound. People can read your pain in the hollows of your face and sag of your body. They step in to help and are witness to your deepest fears. Your helplessness. Over time, though, your strength returns. You no longer feel as though you’re walking around stripped naked in front of people. Y...
Grief is a powerful, magnetic force that both attracts and repels. With the poles aligned one way, it drives people apart. Aligned the other way, it draws people from disparate circumstances with different griefs together. We, the grieving, recognize our own. After Christopher died, I felt completely isolated, as though I were the only one who coul...
Over the years, the weight of joy adds up, too — new children born to friends and colleagues, beauty discovered in unexpected places, new friendship. New love. Initially, permitting myself to feel any kind of pleasure felt like dishonoring my love for Christopher, a betrayal. Over time, though, noting my joys became a kind of memorial to him. He wa...
My best friend’s oldest daughter was born a week after Christopher. We’d compared notes at every stage of our pregnancies and our two children spent much of their first few years together before I moved to Los Angeles. This year, my friend welcomed her first grandchild. I was so excited when I got the news, but when I hung up the phone, a wave of s...
As the years went on,I reached a point where few people I knew or worked with even knew I’d ever had a child. I’d moved several times since his death, each time building a new circle of friends and acquaintances. It felt easier not to talk about him. But I also regretted it. I missed being able to join in conversations about family or talk about th...
A while ago, I gave a reading in the East Village in New York City. The piece I read was about how I had been unable to face telling Christopher’s classmates he wouldn’t be coming back to school. I stood under the spotlight behind a mic and started to read. A few sentences in, my throat closed up and I could feel hot tears rising. I took a deep bre...
Jun 10, 2021 · Carol Smith is an editor at KUOW, and the author of the new memoir Crossing the River: Seven Stories That Saved My Life. She shared her story with KUOW’s Kim Malcolm. This interview has been ...
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Jan 26, 2024 · The Grant County Coroner confirmed that 76-year-old Carol Smith and 75-year-old Charles Smith died from asphyxia caused by smoke inhalation. The coroner could not confirm where the pair had died in the home.
Aug 13, 2021 · During a four day hospital stay, Carol Smith’s daughters say someone at the hospital beat her and left her with a broken nose, a swollen eye, multiple fractures to her skull and bruises on her ...
Jan 25, 2024 · Aftermath of fatal house fire near Ephrata on Jan. 23, 2024. EPHRATA - The Grant County Coroner has released the identities of the victims who died in Tuesday's house fire near Ephrata. The deceased are 76-year-old Carol Smith and 75-year-old Charles Smith.
