Inside the Understanding Room
Kathie named it and I was in it tonight.
It was the “Night of Remembrance” at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins and it was a packed house. Close to 500 grieving care-givers were there, all of them remembering a loved one who had walked those halls, fought the cancer fight and lost the cancer fight.
It was the “Understanding Room.” WE all felt the same emotions, we just felt them for our own special person. WE were all leaning on each other, but stood separately.
Cancer brought us all together just as cancer had divided us.
The “Understanding Room” was standing room only tonight.
May 18, 2012 @ 3:16 pm
Wow – I can truly sense the atmosphere from your simple words. It sounds as though the Night of Remembrance was truly impacting.
May 18, 2012 @ 2:20 am
I remember attending one of those at the hospital for Neil. I went all alone and it was a very scary time for me. I felt the grief like a heavy blanket surrounding us. The room was quiet, sad and yet you could feel the love shared. Everyone in that room had lost a loved one. Each name was read and it was so sad. Memories were still raw, now looking back, it’s a faint memory. I guess it was one memory I didn’t care to remember so much. But I do remember going, it was another step to my healing my broken heart.