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Angelina Crosby-Pigott is a cost engineer and project-management professional with more than twenty-five years of experience. After sudden loss forced her to rebuild her life, she began writing about grief, identity, strategy, surrender, and intentional rebuilding. She is the founder of I AM Rising™ and a mother of four. Find her at helloangelina.com.

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How I Rebuilt My Life After Devastating Loss

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On August 22, 2018, my husband collapsed in our bedroom.

Rudy was my best friend and my partner in every sense of the word. His last word was “911.”

I performed CPR while my youngest daughter and my father-in-law stood nearby, and my oldest daughter shielded our four-year-old in another room. The EMTs worked on him before taking him to the hospital, and my father-in-law and I followed the ambulance.

After what felt like forever, a nurse moved us into a small waiting room at the back of the ER. There was no urgency in the building. It was eerily …