Author Unknown
I am often hit with flashbacks of the day Mckenna died. It
varies on which moment catches me off guard. Sometimes it is me looking down
seeing her under the television, sometimes it is me pulling her out from under
the television lifeless, sometimes it is me holding her as her heart
stopped, each and every time these images literally knock the breath out of me. Lately I
have had an image that has come up more than once in a week which is a
sign that I need to sit with this image. These memories are not easy to sit
with. They are very, very hard to process, work through and remember.
I asked a
friend recently if I will ever look at Mckenna’s beautiful face and not see her
face from the accident? She asked if I only see her face from the accident or
do I see her beautiful face too, I said I see both. Right now I feel the reason
I see her face from the accident when I look at her beautiful face is because
that is the image that keeps popping into my head. The way she looked when I
placed her on the ground as I called 911.
Her misshapen head, one eye swollen shut bruised, her other eye staying open, her tummy sunk in, not breathing....horrible, horrible, horrible memories
In a matter of seconds my full of life baby girl lay
lifeless dying on my living room floor. This image haunts me, why wouldn't it. No mother
should ever have to process something so horrific. I caused this accident, I caused her death (on accident), nothing will ever change that or how I feel. This is the reason I will NEVER forgive myself and I'm OK with that. I'm ok with this because I am the one who has to live with this mistake and these images. I'm sure I am not the only mother who would not forgive herself. To expect otherwise is absurd to me. All I can do is process this image, sit with it and allow myself to feel what I feel without trying to "fix" it. The only way it would be "fixed" would be for me to go back in time and make a different decision that day which we all know it not possible.
Just writing these words my chest is tight, I have a lump in
my throat and my head is dizzy. Though one thing that is different is it has not taken over my life, where as a few years ago images like this would take me out for days. Growing, learning and like a dear friend says "becoming."
It is never ending. This journey is never ending….
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