March 7, 2010 – Detroit Free Press – USA
Grief and stress can be vicious, sneaking up and pressing in on you when you least expect it.
Lori Uyttebroeck went from joking — “I tell everyone I’m a 46-year-old jobless widow with no income” — to tearful in the time it took her to try to apologize for it.
“I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to. … It’s just that I once thought nothing could be worse than losing my job. Then my husband, he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer.”
Francisco Salazar — a man who faxed her poetry at work and was forever trying to concoct the best chili and soup recipes — was diagnosed just before Christmas 2008. He was gone by July.
For Uyttebroeck, a former administrative assistant with a rental car company, eating became mindless and exercise dwindled.
She credits a personal cardiac coach, Peggy Manchester, for helping her drop more than 30 pounds and, just as importantly, find a bit of tranquility in a life that had careened off-course. Read story.
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