My wife wasn’t conscious to celebrate Thanksgiving in the ICU, but she’s awake in time for her favorite holiday!4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/pics
My trip begins with a quick stop in the forest where it all began. I fell in love, proposed, and laid her to rest in these mountains. Not pictured, 45 minutes of me bawling and falling and getting soaked in ice water.4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/widowers
Monday night I held my beautiful bride in my arms as she took her last breath. I have no words describe what that feels like, and I don’t think I ever will. I’ll miss you, ducky. Keep the bed warm in heaven for me.4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/widowers
I took the idea to get our rings interlocked from someone on here. Thank you stranger! Today marks one month.4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/widowers
Yesterday was tough. Her family and I still don’t think it was a mistake posting that intimate moment. Started a drip last night. The doctors said hearing is the last sense to go, so I’ve been reading her the nice messages and assuring her I’ll be ok like you guys suggested.4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/widowers
I’ve never once thought about getting a tattoo, but this was a no brainer. Her “favorite creature” was always sea turtle, no contest. I broke down in the shop after they finished. Anyone else commemorate?4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/widowers
Took a walk in the literal and figurative fog early this morning. I feel like my life is generally getting better.4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/widowers
Today I picked up her ashes. I went for a short hike later and took this photo. Every journey starts with a single step.4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/widowers
She asked me to travel, I told her I wouldn’t want to without my adventure buddy, and this was her response. I’m still stranded in Peru, but I don’t feel the trip was a failure. I found some big mountains, physically and emotionally, and I went up. I’ll be back to go higher.4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/widowers
Annie the grief ESA comes just about everywhere with me, and I can’t be more thankful to have her.4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/dogswithjobs
I didn’t care about donating until the surgeons said my wife used 110 units of blood in the operating room. Went for the Power Red my first time donating, and it went without a hitch!4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/Blooddonors
More commemorative ink! I had our rings interlocked and keep them on my keys, but I missed having the outward symbol.4yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/widowers
Great Grandpa Caliva rescuing my grandma and her sister from their (white) mother in the slums. He later gained legal custody as a “colored man” in a time when it was nearly impossible for women to lose. (1938)5yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/OldSchoolCool
Finding the local gravel is keeping me sane right now. Not super happy with where I live, but roads like these are therapeutic.5yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/gravelcycling
Exhausted firefighters sleeping in the dirt after countless hours defending Redding, CA6yr ⋅ MECHASCHMECK ⋅ r/pics
