Colored Band-Aids: Meeting Grief

Story premised upon a journey through grief and characterized with the reality of this grief walk. Story to share and inspire readers with a different approach than many books about grief. This story shares the reality that grieving may be riddled with swearing and infidelity and at times angry outbursts or wit, zip, and zest. Inspirational and brings realistic healing while Janey deals with deaths, divorce, boyfriend break-ups, infidelity, pet loss, and a mother's Alzheimer's Disease. A newfound perspective in facing grief and sorrow when the world Janey once knew crashes down at once and is lost while a new world is being built. Darkness is met with each colored band-aid. So simple; yet, so complex and riveting in the strength and courage Janey finds in beginning to live again after death, loss and heartbreak.

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Right then and there, Janey decided she was buying a box of colored band-aids. How anti-climatic. Right? Janey needed something quick. Something now. She needed to put a face, a label, a something on her accumulation of grief, because this grief was demolishing Janey and her life during the past seven years. It had been a bitch. Janey knew she needed to attach some meaning to her grief. This meaning would be the bridge to help her heal the wounds she felt, but could not see. Surely colored band-aids would work. Colors had meaning. Band-aids meant healing. Meaning and healing. That's what Janey needed. Simple tangible reminders of meaning and healing.

Call her crazy. Perhaps. Colored band-aids it was going to be. Walgreens. Rite-Aid. Who has them for sale? Right here right now. Who has them? Janey marched out the door, jumped in her car, and was on a mission for stupid colored band-aids. This was going to be a trip. This was no way to spend a Saturday night, but she was so damn tired of this grief haunting her like a loose faint ghost always over her shoulders. She was ready for the grief fight! Colored band-aids it was or die trying. Vroom! Vroom! Vroom! As Janey's car raced down the road in search of colored band-aids.

Each color symbolizes and has meaning for each loss and heartbreak Janey experienced during the past seven years. Janey's colored band-aid journey is an unfettered approach with unyielding inspiration for those in the throes of grief, loss, and heartbreak. Helping those with grief torn lives, broken hearts, and shattered dreams.