Comments on: Empty Arms, Broken Hearts …and a life full of blessings Chapter 4

By: Misti

Misti — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:56:32 +0000

I too, had tissue fall into the toilet. We were temporarily living in an apartment at the time and didn’t have a telephone. We left it there and went and called the doctor. He told us to bring it in so that he could make sure (this was on a Sunday). We went back home and my husband scooped it out of the toilet and then because we couldn’t bear to look at it, put the jar in a brown paper sack and set it in the bathroom for us to take early the next morning. I had a daughter already and hadn’t really planned this baby (only known I was pregnant a week), so it wasn’t as devastating as your story, but there’s still no way to describe the feeling or emotions when you see and feel something like that. I have already read the rest of the installments that you have written and can’t wait to read more. Your story is very inspiring to others. 🙂

By: Green Gracie Home

Green Gracie Home — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:43:50 +0000

you have me on the edge of tears…I too have had to flush and just feel you in your words…xoxo

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 00:34:09 +0000

Hi. Just found your blog while blog-hopping. I also had 2 miscarriages and understand exactly what you’re talking about. I am caught up in your story and want to read chapter five. I don’t know if you still need titles for chapters; but as I was reading, some possible title ideas jumped out at me. Ch. 1: Welcome Home Daddy, Ch. 2: A Fighting Chance, Ch. 3 No DNC, Ch. 4: “I love you” or Forever in My Memory (don’t know what happens in chapter 5, so not sure of these 2 options). Thanks for sharing your story. Let me know when you have more to read. I want to know the rest of your story.
~ Julie

By: Lourie

Lourie — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 03:30:06 +0000

Well I finally got here! I am once again, waiting(as patiently) as I can for the next installment. I am still just floored by this doctor(the first one) Ugh!

By: Melissa Howard

Melissa Howard — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:34:14 +0000

I am so grateful that so many honor the memory of such little ones…

By: Becca's Dirt

Becca's Dirt — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:18:54 +0000

Oh Cheri – I am tearing up so right now. I feel your pain but I have never experienced this. That would be the hardest thing to do. Bless you sweetie.

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:50:32 +0000

Cheri, I feel your pain and have been through this several times. The hardest was losing baby Samuel. He was five and half months old and born a perfect little baby who would never breathe or live on this earth. It was devastating to me, yet the Lord used him to slow me down. I’ll never forget the words I felt ringing in my heart after about a month of recovering from severe hemorrhaging, “Love the ones you have.” Those words which I didn’t want to hear were pointing to a painful truth…I wasn’t really paying much attention to them. I was so type A and thinking I needed to earn a place in God’s heart as I had had to do my dad’s that until he stopped me in my tracks, I didn’t realize his love and acceptance were gifts..no work needed. Samuel means ‘God has heard.’ I had prayed for years that the Lord would fix me of the wounds that my father had inflicted…and in this strange way he did just that. It wasn’t too long after that that I wrote the song, “Let Your children dream”…about truly loving your older children and mentoring them.

Someday, we will all see our sweet little ones…the ones who sit on our Heavenly Father’s lap..and we will get to hold them ourselves. Such a sweet story…and I too did not want to flush the first time I had an early miscarriage. Your feelings were perfectly natural!

By: Denise

Denise — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 04:38:35 +0000

Oh My Goodness! I am sitting here so supercharged with memory…..I flushed the toilet myself, at the hospital …..and never told my (now) exhusband about that part. He wouldn’t have been able to handle it. It’s a picture in my mind that will only be erased in eternity. Thank You for sharing your story with us!