Ohh boy do I know. That trusting the body thing. Scary. I think a delayed reaction to the whole appendix thing is normal. Normal that it was delayed I mean. I has to come out at some point! For years, even as a kid I was petrified of dying to the point I'd lie in bed and cry. I have Mr. Botts to thank for that reading Edgar Allan Poe and the "Cask of Amontillado" burying some guy alive in the wall. Ugh.
I'm at a wierd place with Cora because she's now learning of death and I absolutely refuse to sugar coat death with fairy tales of heaven, because we are not going there. So figuring out how to explain death without scaring her is tricky. We put Boris to sleep in February and we only told her "he is gone." But soon, that isn't going to be sufficient. She's already asking where my mom and dad are and I look at her like a deer caught in the headlights!
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Date: 2007-05-24 06:57 pm (UTC)I'm at a wierd place with Cora because she's now learning of death and I absolutely refuse to sugar coat death with fairy tales of heaven, because we are not going there. So figuring out how to explain death without scaring her is tricky. We put Boris to sleep in February and we only told her "he is gone." But soon, that isn't going to be sufficient. She's already asking where my mom and dad are and I look at her like a deer caught in the headlights!