The Questions No One Asks: What Anticipatory Grief Actually Feels Like Day by Day
Grief Resources, Grief Support, Understanding Grief, Anticipatory Grief Paige Cummings Grief Resources, Grief Support, Understanding Grief, Anticipatory Grief Paige Cummings

The Questions No One Asks: What Anticipatory Grief Actually Feels Like Day by Day

1.     Anticipatory grief—grieving while your dog is still alive but declining—is exhausting, isolating, and rarely acknowledged. People ask about your dog, but nobody asks about you. What does it feel like to wake up every morning wondering if this is the day? To run constant quality of life assessments? To make impossible decisions while trying to treasure remaining time? When Charlie was dying, I lived in suspended animation between normal life and loss, carrying decision fatigue, hypervigilance, and guilt in every direction. If you're watching your dog decline and don't know when the end will come, this validates what you're experiencing day by day, hour by hour.

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