1. Shari Arctander Said,

   I am on the yahoo group AmericanInNorway, but not in the least bit active. However, here I sit at home and decide to check it, see you asked about someone in the Porsgrunn area and saw you have a website and went to it. Saw Eirik Allen Strand and wondered about that, and see you have lost your son.

   I am from Texas and have lived in Norway since Oct 99, first in Kirkenes, now in Drammen. My daughter, Kayla Colleen, was stillborn 19 April 2000 and life has never been the same since. She was born here in Norway and I feel, based on conversations on email lists I’m on, that I got excellent care with regard to a stillbirth, better than if she’d been born in America. We had planned to move to Drammen just nine days after she was born (which was the day before Easter holiday starts with Maundy Thursday, so you can imagine the stress of moving at that point). We had her brought down to Drammen and she is buried here.

   I am sorry you lost Eirik. I know how very hard it is. Over eight years later, not a day goes by that I don’t think about her and how different life could have been.

   Just had to write when I saw you had also lost a child to stillbirth. I don’t know any other Americans here in Norway, and certainly haven’t heard of any here who have had a stillbirth. (Though I know several Norwegians who have gone through it.)

   Shari
   always mamma to “et barn for lite”

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