Whether physical or psychological, significant loss may be caused by death or illness or by any other major change, tragedy or disaster. Health care professionals, for example, especially those who work directly with seriously ill and dying patients are faced with potential losses every day.
Severe losses can cause feelings of despair, loneliness, bitterness, helplessness and hopelessness.
Some people never recover from a major loss, causing them to live the rest of their lives in misery. Other people are able to transform the loss into something positive that ultimately makes them better people. Either way, loss can be debilitating and recovery takes enormous courage. It is a remarkable collection of 67 stories, each written by a different anonymous author, many of whom are nurses and other health care workers, about personal losses they have lived through. While of course there is not the verbal sharing that occurs when people are actually physically together, this book inspires a similar kind of interaction between the reader and the storyteller.