Grief doesn’t follow a straight line — it lingers, shifts, and sometimes cuts deeper with time. “No one loved my job more than he did,” Amanda Balionis wrote last year. Now, seven years later, the CBS sideline reporter admits the pain hasn’t faded; it’s deepened. In a candid Instagram story , she shared, “For those who lost a loved one, the seven-year mark can be an emotional milestone because it represents a period of significant transition in the grief journey. It forces you to confront both the progress you’ve made and the reality that your loved one is still gone.”

Physically, it showed up as pinched nerves. “I’m seeing a chiro tomorrow morning and have been alternating ice and heat today, which has kept the pain mostly at bay… but my fingers are still very tingly, which is w

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