Susan Whitmore: You're never going to have your normal life back, but it doesn't mean it won't be a good life

[Susan Whitmore lost her only child, Erika, in 2002.  She set up a foundation for other grieving parents.] 

Grieving... is a life-long process...."You have to create a lot of new memories over a long time without that child," she explains, "so that you can rebuild your life....You're never going to have your normal life back, but it doesn't mean it won't be a good life. It will be a different life, a new life."

   --From an article by Katie Grim in Westside Today, December 2007