Tina Cuevas decided going back to work was one way to start healing after the slaying of her son, Chance, three years ago. In those three years, there have plenty of bad days.
"(For) four seconds in the morning, you knew if it was going to be a good day or a bad day," Cuevas said.
But her new job turned out to be part of her salvation.
"I feel the same compassion here at work," she said. "I can get everything I need right here at work."
Cuevas recently nominated her boss, Allstate Maurice Stephens, as a 2009 Compassionate Employer, an award given out by Compassionate Friends.
The Compassionate Friends is the largest support group for parents who have lost children worldwide.
It recognized 141 people this year, the ninth year of the award.
"I can sit here and have all the compassion in the world," said Stephens. "But, if I don't have good people to help me, and keep my business going, then (my compassion) doesn't do any good."
Compassionate Friends meets the first Tuesday of every month at the Grand Strand Senior Center on 21st Avenue North in Myrtle Beach.
"It's something you look forward to once a month," said Cuevas.
For more information, click here for the Compassionate Friends website.
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