Losing A Parent Week 2: What To Expect

Hope Carter
5 min readJul 28, 2021

The rollercoaster of grief never ends. That’s all I can honestly say at the moment.

I know what’s coming this week. It’s the same as last week and you can expect the same thing, too, but it’s a bit different in some ways.

I often times foresee the death of my dad like the hypertrophic scars I have — very red and alive with blood vessels and veins, deeply painful and tugging at times, but the scar fibers are tough and stubborn because it had to heal that way. It’s an ugly scar and it won’t fade no matter what I do, so I have to learn to…

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Hope Carter

Self-published romance author 💋 Grief blogger 🖤