grief
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I was a 88 pound weakling in the seventh grade, and then there was Bill. He was a 9th grade wrestler and an antagonist bully who never referred to me as Mike but usually as runt or some other four letter word. Bill inspired me to become a wrestler, not because I wanted to be Read more
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Grieving the death of a child: You can’t get over it, you can’t get around it, you must go through it. When the funeral is over and the committal has taken place there is a silence we experience that is shocking and frightening. Life must go on, but how? Life changes in every way for the parents Read more
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The call that none of us want to receive never came to my wife, she delivered it. Stacey found our son Jacob dead on our basement bathroom floor a year ago today. I got the call about around 10 AM, she was frantic and wailing things that I couldn’t understand. I asked her to repeat Read more
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And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent- Jesus What Jacob left behind after his death brings a measure of comfort to me in his absence. I open the door to his bedroom, I see his things, I smell his clothes and remember his Read more
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The trauma and grief that a parent experiences when a child dies is unique unto itself. It has its own zip code, its own language that cannot be understood by those who cannot speak the dialect. I am the father of Jacob Michael Fekete who died March 26, 2014, around 10 am that day I received Read more
Wrestling with Jacob 