Grief’s Many Faces
How caregivers navigate guilt and loss when their caregiving responsibilities end Susan Skeldon, 72, of Joliet, Illinois, remembers the worry she felt when she became her mother’s primary caregiver. She feared that she was abandoning her husband, Chuck, to focus on her mom. Skeldon was in her 60s when her 93-year-old mother, Mary Duchene, fell […]
A Place for Grief
Finding ways to honor and connect with loved ones who have passed Fact checked by Shannon Sparks Oliver Brown Leopold had a robust life. As a teenager, he created apps for other students at Evanston Township High School and for the city’s fire department, where he had participated in their youth fire patrol program. During […]
Grief During the Pandemic
Finding one’s way through mourning and loss Carisa Urban was quite literally at the end of her rope. Working tirelessly as a nurse in a Covid-19 intensive care unit at a busy Chicagoland hospital, the Bolingbrook resident had her hands full. She found herself not only treating an onslaught of severely ill patients, but also personally dealing […]