domestic abuse Archives - Colleen Kelly Mellor: I Write of Heroes

January 5, 2022

“Alone..So So Alone”

Alone…So So Alone… The holidays are always tough for me (and for many others with whom I sympathize). When my second husband died, on New Year’s Day, 1986, it was as if I sat in a minefield, smoke clearing all about… stunned I was still alive. It had been a terrible two years….two years that […]

September 16, 2021

“When Troubles Come in Battalions–Cancer”

Note: If you missed my prior post, “Heart Attack,”you may want to first reference that. And to make sure you don’t miss future posts, please consider signing up, on my website where my posts appear (scroll down to Blog on Home Page or access it in upper right corner, under Blog..then “Memories” at colleenkellymellor.com). “When […]

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September 7, 2021

Heart Attack: “Troubles Come in Battalions”

Heart Attack: “Troubles Come in Battalions” My husband lay in the bed in his single room #426 in Rhode Island Hospital, white sheets pulled snug, electrodes attached to his chest–monitors whose bleeping assured staff he wasn’t in the throes of a 2nd heart attack. As I rounded the door and stepped over the threshold, he […]

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