I'm supposed to be working...

ORIGINALLY POSTED 8/4/2009

SOS was ok last night. It was just Shawn (the leader of the group), me and one other woman who's son died by suicide in '08. She is the third woman in our group who's daughter in law is keeping her grandchildren away since their husbands died. I think it is so tragic that those poor children will not know their grandparents because of an awful mistake. It is not the children or the parents of the suicide's fault. It's no ones fault, how terrible that that poor wife feels like she has to alienate her children way from her husbands family for one reason or another.Sometimes I feel like I don't need to go to the meetings. I'm not in as must pain and grief as some of the others in the group who's loved one died much more recently than Mom. Maybe it's selfish, but I like going and I've noticed that Shawn calls on me a lot to give some perspective about what life will be like after years have passed, not weeks or months. When the pain permeates your entire life, not allowing you to breathe or function beyond the grief it's hard to believe that you will get through it and be able to move forward with your life.

We found a location for the Survivors of Suicide day for Oakland county. It will be held at Birmingham Unitarian Church. I haven't been there, but Shawn assured me it was a great place and a really good price for the day, which is important for our tiny budget. I am a little worried about people confusing this day for a religious one, which it's not. Also, it's not equipped with a projection screen for the web show so it will have to be shown on a couple TVs. But for $65 for the entire day...we will make it work.

The next step is getting the flyer's made and start working on advertising the day on the radio and newspapers. I do believe we are going to create Twitter and Facebook pages for it too. Here is the link to the AFSP website talking about SOS day.http://www.afsp.org/index.cfm?page_id=FEE7D778-CF08-CB44-DA1285B6BBCF366E