My Failure Confessional

Candice Nelson
9 min readAug 12, 2020

Tonight, is a night like most others. Twilight falls and the hardest part of my day arrives. It’s the witching hour, the loss-parent version. Maybe it’s harder for me, because of the time of day that we lost Vail. Probably. My nightly struggles are definitely amplified by my constant fear of sleep. Sleep equals death. Or at least an unknown factor, that the world has failed to identify. This is when my PTSD is the worst. I relive that night most…

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Candice Nelson

Co-founder: SUDC Coalition, Founder: The Vail Project, VP of Vail Industries, wife, mom of two amazing girls; one on earth and one in heaven.