My first post

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I'm starting my first post here which is scary.
I've never done a blog before and only decided to do it as my friends niece started one after losing her baby.My friend thought it may help me with my grief to write my feelings down so here I am.
I'm so up and down emotionally and I am finding day to day life tough. It is unrecognisable now Dominic's not here. The dynamics at home have changed hugely and me, Jamie, Vanessa,Emily and Ben are all trying to plod through each day in our own ways.
Each time Dominic's bedroom door opens or each time I hear any noise remotely sounding like Dominic I forget for a moment. For that instant life is as it should be...with him in it.
Then I remember and my whole World crashes down again.
As I've spent hours trying to navigate this page I'm going to leave this blog for now.
I'm hoping to explain more about Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy at some point, and write about Dominic's life and bits of mine and my familys as well as my new existence - A redundant carer and mother of  3 children although as far as I'm concerned I will always be a mother of 4.
I'm adding 2 photos. The first is a photo of me kissing Dominic's hand in the funeral home with a poem I wrote and enclosed in his casket along with cuddly toys and photos.
The second is of the front of Dominic's service booklet from the Crematorium where we said our final Goodbyes in a packed chapel.

 Thanks for joining me.


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