by Meadow Rue Merrill | Apr 15, 2021 | Faith Notes |
Saturday would have been our daughter Ruth’s eighteenth birthday. Instead, it marks the ten years she’s been gone. What more is there to say? Except that I am still unable to comprehend her absence. Not a day goes by that I don’t imagine how she might look, what hurdles she might have overcome, what goals she might have held for her future.
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Aug 1, 2014 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations |
I didn’t know who to talk to. Who could possibly understand the devastating grief and responsibility I felt after my 7-year-old daughter Ruth, who had severe cerebral palsy and was deaf, unexpectedly died in her sleep? Family and friends did their best to... ![THE DIAGNOSIS YOU’VE NEVER HEARD OF]()
by Meadow Rue Merrill | Feb 25, 2013 | Faith Notes, Monday Meditations |
When our daughter Ruth’s neurologist first uttered the word “kernicterus” it flew right over my head. She had died only a few days before. I sat at my husband’s desk frantically scribbling notes in a yellow legal pad, desperately trying to...
