One year ago today....

hope0310

My world was forever changed. My best friend, my rock, my confident, my soft place to land was diagnosed with metastic lung cancer.

For 207 days we fought the beast. We Loved. We Laughed. We Cried.

Mom I love you with all my heart and miss you every second of every day.


Thank all of you on this board for the support, advise and hugs you shared with me during that time, you are all very special people.

If I learned one thing during this journey, it was a vivid reminder at just how short life truly is. Live it....everyday.....that is what I am now doing, and mom is looking down and say "that a girl!!"

Be good to yourselves!
Elysia

mamacita5

Your Mother is Proud of You
Your sweet angel mother is so proud of you! You have been a wonderful support to many of us who have had lung cancer. You are also a great source of comfort to those people who are supporting their friends and family members who have it.

hope0310

mamacita5 said:

Your Mother is Proud of You
Your sweet angel mother is so proud of you! You have been a wonderful support to many of us who have had lung cancer. You are also a great source of comfort to those people who are supporting their friends and family members who have it.

Thank you mamacita, tough
Thank you mamacita, tough road, very tough. My life has been changed forever, and some of those changes are good. The loss stings like the dickens, but the lessons learned are priceless!!

Life is too short, live, love laugh!!

Be good to yourselves
Elysia

mrsbotch

hope0310 said:

Thank you mamacita, tough
Thank you mamacita, tough road, very tough. My life has been changed forever, and some of those changes are good. The loss stings like the dickens, but the lessons learned are priceless!!

Life is too short, live, love laugh!!

Be good to yourselves
Elysia

Lost my husband
I just lost my husband on Feb 23rd after a long battle with esophageal cancer. I miss him so much and do not know how to go on without him.
He was my best friend and the love of my life.


Hope 0310
You send inspirational messages. I need to know. Do things ever get easier? Will I ever feel good again?

Barb

3Mana

mrsbotch said:

Lost my husband
I just lost my husband on Feb 23rd after a long battle with esophageal cancer. I miss him so much and do not know how to go on without him.
He was my best friend and the love of my life.


Hope 0310
You send inspirational messages. I need to know. Do things ever get easier? Will I ever feel good again?

Barb

It'll get easier
Barb,
It will get easier, I promise. My husband died last Mar. 25th and I felt like I was going to crack up. We were married 46 years and he was the love of my life. He had always been healthy so when this "cancer" struck in January, I figured he'd beat it. Never thought he'd be gone in 2 months. It was a traumatic death because of Avastin one of his chemos which he only had one time.
Are you seeing a counselor??? I did that for 10 months and had to be put on meds also. It helped alot. I never would've believed anyone if they would have told me how I'd feel today. I've been crying again lately, simply cause of the "one year" anniversary coming up. Just a little thing can set me off. I'm sure that will pass & i'll be okay again.
Just take one day at a time. It will be easier although you will never forget him.
Hope to hear from you!!! Carole

hope0310

mrsbotch said:

Lost my husband
I just lost my husband on Feb 23rd after a long battle with esophageal cancer. I miss him so much and do not know how to go on without him.
He was my best friend and the love of my life.


Hope 0310
You send inspirational messages. I need to know. Do things ever get easier? Will I ever feel good again?

Barb

Too soon....
mrsbotch - it has been a mere 5 month and a half months. I cannot honestly say that it has gotten easier yet. However, I know that my mom wants me to be happy and live my life without regrets.

She would not want me to stagnate and loose my joy for life. So, with that in my heart, I try to focus on it.

Let me share this poem with you.....I read it often. Be good to yourself, that is what your best friend and soul mate would want......

Elysia




Death is nothing at all
I have only slipped away into the next room
I am I and you are you
Whatever we were to each other
That we are still
Call me by my old familiar name
Speak to me in the easy way you always used
Put no difference into your tone
Wear no forced air of solemnity or sorrow
Laugh as we always laughed
At the little jokes we always enjoyed together
Play, smile, think of me, pray for me
Let my name be ever the household word that it always was
Let it be spoken without effort
Without the ghost of a shadow in it
Life means all that it ever meant
It is the same as it ever was
There is absolute unbroken continuity
What is death but a negligible accident?
Why should I be out of mind
Because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you for an interval
Somewhere very near
Just around the corner
All is well.
Nothing is past; nothing is lost
One brief moment and all will be as it was before
How we shall laugh at the trouble of parting when we meet again!

Canon Henry Scott-Holland, 1847-1918, Canon of St Paul's Cathedral