As time wears on you learn to live with the loss and surrounding
anxieties. It is so difficult to stop
searching when it has been my only career for the past 23 years. I have been
immersed in my missing son’s case. I
know he is not coming home. The best I
can hope for is we find his remains and lay him to rest. We will probably never know what
happened. But how to return to some semblance
of normality is a huge struggle. I share my experience to help with others in similar situations. Assisting organizations who are helping with
the missing issue is one way. But its
not enough. I have been pro-active with social
media and created a petition for improved investigations of the missing. I wrote a book looking from the inside out of our
missing son’s case. I have consciously heaped more on my shoulders. I feel it is time to throw in the towel and
go back to a “normal” life. Whatever
that is. But I just can’t let this
go. So I come back to it again and again
to try to effect change and offer some input shed some light and validate my son existed and pray its not all for naught. My son set me on this path. God willing it wont be for nothing. Damien has to count for something
in his 16 years of life.
I has been, and still is, a life sentence.
Ah Valerie, you continue to do so much for Damien, your family and for other families of this club noone wants to be in. Damien counts for lots, he is your son and will always be your son. Know that others care and hope that you will get answers.
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