Grief and Bereavement
Discussion List
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Made It
through Thanksgiving. To tell the truth I really just wanted to stay home in bed and forget the whole thing. But everone pushed me so I did it. Wet up to my parents, had the traditional turkey dinner (my husbands favorite dish) went with my parents and brothers to cut down their Christmas trees (something we couldn't do…
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Made it through Thanksgiving and Mom's Birthday.....
Not sure how exactly, but we did. I have never made the entire Thanksgiving dinner, until now. I did pretty good, even on the age old family tradition of homemade noodles! It was sad and different without mom. Even more so, my brother decided to go out of town to our step sisters for the holiday and my stepdad wanted to…
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Thanksgiving
I just wanted to wish all of my discussion board friends a peaceful Thanksgiving. We enter the holidays with such an absence and sadness. Surround yourself with loved ones, don't try to go it alone. Best wishes to all. Becky
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Her name is Laura and I miss hee ever day she's not by my side
Her name was Laura, and she was my girl, and I loved more than anything in this damn world. we got married young. Both of us were 18. But we defied the odds and made it work. Ours....was a not a perfect marriage, but we tried and we made it through the tough times. 20 years we were together 'til the demon cancer took her…
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Flash Backs
We are coming up on the 5 mo. marker of my husband's passing. I find lately I get flashbacks of the 15 mos. of his illness...difficult, sad flashes. I don't know if this is partly due to now going through this cancer routine with my mom. Just wishing for some normalcy in my life.
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Both Parents have cancer right now
I found out 2 weeks ago my dad has pancreatic cancer, he came home from the hospital yesterday after surgery and will have chemo in a few months. My mom was diagnosed with stage 3 ovarian cancer in october 2009 and has had 2 surgerys and chemo also. My mom was doing well for awhile and now her count is going back up, and…
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Say what?????
I went to a group meeting tonight that hospice holds on loss of a spouse. A lot of the people there were a bit older than myself, but many of them agreed that the 2nd year is harder than the first. Really, are they serious? I cannot imagine anything worse than how things are now and Doug just died 2 months ago. Oh God…
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My mom's birthday is today :(
My mom passed away a little over a year ago and still to this day the pain is unbearable. I am still suffering from a broken heart and constantly have a heart ache. I feel so empty and lost without her. I have a repetitive blank feeling that seems to never get better on days like today. I was only 14 when she was diagnose,…
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New Traditions...
Most know my story, lost my mom to SCLC 9/23, just dx 3/1. Lost my mother in law to EC 10/24, dx late June. Holidays are coming. My family ALWAYS got together at mom's, husbands family never had anything....Plus the fact mom's bday is Nov 27th. I have 2 boys..17 and 21, we need to create our own new traditions, but it is…
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Thank You
I am going to leave this board, it’s time I want to thank all of you for the amazing support during and after my wife’s illness. I try to pray for each of you every night, day, morning. You are all brave and courageous. Life for me is moving forward, sometimes 5 steps forward, 4 steps back, but it is moving. For the first…
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It never ends
Next week I am going to our condo in Fl to scatter Hank's ashes as were his wishes. I am so dreading this trip. Not just for that reason but we had such good times there and this will be the first time without him. To add to the stress my mil was hospitalized after a fall which required a full hip replacement, then…
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Sometimes its just ok....
Well yesterday brought a new aspect of this widow thing to my doorstep....car accident...totally my fault...totally toasted the front end of my brand new car...its only a car. But the silver lining to this is that immediately post wreck I swung into gear...insurance...towing...rental...DONE! This would not have been me in…
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Here We Go Again
Lost my wonderful husband in June after a yr. long battle with brain cancer. My mother has been diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer and we are trying to decide what route to take. Because of her age (85) and some health issues, it comes down to a full mastectomy or doing nothing and letting the cancer take its course. I…