thanks you for sharing, I hope there's more good news in your daughter's future

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]She certainly deserves a break to help her begin enjoying life and start looking forward again.

I think I know how you must be feeling right now, and I wish you both the best.

She must be an excellent student to earn that honor. And you an excellent parent.

What wonderful news! May this good news bring her strength and lift her spirits.

Congratulations on the scholarship. After such a tragic year, I hope that she can begin to embrace her life again. That smile must have given you so much heart.

Good news indeed. Best wishes to your daughter.

you must have a special little one that'll be one of the best things you've ever done in your life. Cherish it forever.

-p

It's nice to hear some good things happened to someone who really needed it. I just want to give you all a big hug!

I feel what you're saying. I am happy that you posted about her. I understand that, in some ways, your pain is worse because you feel every ounce of hers as well as the horrific brain and heart slamming repeatedly against the walls of helpless frustration and anger of not being able to make everything alright. The parent's curse...
Hang tough. I guess that's all we can do.

exactly the way we feel

The only way through it is through it. But I am very glad about the scholarship and gladder that you are beginning to see a familiar joy in her.

And I just remembered seeing radiant Meryl Streep on Jimmy Kimmel tonight. I don't know if you'll ever want or need to mention it, but early in her career, long before the Oscars, Meryl lost her fiance, John Cazale, to bone cancer. It does get better.

wow

I can't believe the cost of books for college courses--I thought it was outrageous back when I was in school, but I paid a pittance compared to how they're screwing college kids nowadays.

Hopefully she'll have brighter days ahead. It's always nice to get a bit of recognition, and when it's monetary, so much the better!

I hope you don't think I'm getting to personal, but what's she studying?

it was and has been quite a dark time.

He was going back to visit his parents and she had decided not to go as she had mid-terms to study for. They were together 5 years and had lived together for 2. We still have the dress and all of the wedding things, all that we had not purchased was the food/cake and flowers. The things are all in the basement in a tub and have not been touched. I would like to sell the dress, but everything is still sensitive.

It was quite an adjustment having her move back in after 2 years, coupled with the reason. The hubs and I have been walking on egg-shells trying not to upset her yet trying to get her to live life again.

She has started hanging out with a really nice guy that she and her fiance were both friends with. He has been taking her to dinner 2-3 times a week. She is smiling more in the last month than she has since March.

This scholarship is a God-Send and has motivated her back to school. She is going in the medical field probably be the one to read blood tests and pathology ect.

My hope is that this will be the beginning of things turning positive for her. May she get a kick-ass education in a field that she loves!

It's heartening to hear that good things are happening to DUers.

Our children's happiness is so dear to us. And their unhappiness tears our hearts out. ((((((((( dentebjeep )))))))))

Hugs to your daughter too.

As a father, I can understand the relief Hope can bring.

Congratulations to your daughter, I know how difficult it can be to qualify for those types of scholarships.

Also, my heart goes out to your daughter, your family and the family of her fiance, such a terrible tragedy.

Our daughter was first emergency contact and she was alone studying when she got the call. She then called us and we had to call his parents. SO. VERY. ROUGH.

and for your daughter to be the first one to be called, so very tragic. Having been through trauma not unlike that which has struck your family and the family of her fiance, I know what you mean when you say "not something I ever expected to go through". All any of us can do is be there for each other, sometimes to be the strong one upon which others can lean, sometimes to have others be strong when you need to lean.

I can only offer a for all of you but it is coming from the heart.

I changed jobs so I could have more time with her and she changed schools and for a while wouldn't drive. She gave her engagement ring to his parents~they wanted her to keep it, but she wanted them to use the money to help with the expenses. At first she talked to her (almost) in-laws weekly but I have noticed that over time the frequency of phone calls has lessened. I think it might be for the better to help the healing, but they are good people.

Yes, I know it is a smallish point of light in the great darkness, but each one that goes on is a help.

I feel for her pain, and for yours. That's a terribly tragic story.

Wishing you all good health and prosperity.

it has been a long road