Cruel World

I don't know any other way to say this so I'll just say it. My SIL, R, is experiencing a miscarriage. We are all just devastated that she's going through this. She had some spotting and cramping yesterday morning so she called her doctor who told her to go ahead and come on in for an ultrasound. There wasn't a heartbeat and the baby hadn’t grown almost since the last ultrasound. R is of course so upset and our whole family is too. I know I talked about how excited we all were and it’s just so horrible to have it turn out like this. My heart breaks for what she is going through. I know the pain and I wish I could do something, anything to take hers away. Last night when I saw her she hugged me and when I told her how sorry I was and how awful it is her words were “no one understands better than you.” It’s a pain no one should ever understand. Sometimes it just feels like we live in a cruel, pain filled world.

Any thoughts and prayers you can send her way would be more appreciated than I can express.