Tis the season

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I'm sorry to all the innocent people out there that I give angry looks to when they are smiling or chatting to their friends, laughing. I don't need that - you don't, and will never understand me. You don't know how much it makes my blood boil that you will have a normal Christmas, you will not know what it feels like to have the one fear in your life come true - and have to live through it.

My mom has gone, I will never see her again, never celebrate Christmas with her again.Never be able to hang the decorations up with her, sit in on Christmas Eve and watch crappy TV. Never wake up early and wish her a Merry Christmas, kiss her, hug her, get presents from her, (and still pretend that Father Christmas left the sack in my room), give presents to her, see her get dressed up for Christmas Day even thouh she knew she wouldn't be going anywhere...just spending time with us. Never sit around in our pyjamas opening presents - deciding which ones to open first, which to open last. Never cooking her Christmas lunch again, never pulling a cracker again, never telling her how much I hate Christmas pudding. Never  will try to play boards games when there are only 3 of us, never sitting there again and watch her sleep, knowing she loves you. Never hearing her say 'Night, night. Loves you.' Never waking up knowing that she is asleep in the next room.

Now it is just me and my sister...that's my family now. Just us - we will have to get through the Christmas period with fake smiles, fake laughs. Christmas is surposed to be a time of family - my family has been torn apart by cancer. Life will never be the same.

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  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    I can understand exactly how you are feeling and I am so sorry you are having to suffer this pain I have lost my family too..

    (((hugs))) to you and your sister..

    Love scarlet xxx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Fifi dont be sorry for how you feel, you

    are missing your mum, and its the time

    of year when we miss all those we loved

    and lost. My mum went into hospital on a

    christmas day and died a week later, my

    first christmas without her was very sad

    and i couldn,t eat anything because she

    should have been here eating christmas

    dinner with me. after a time these feelings

    wont be so painful and you will start to

    think of the good times you had with your

    mum.I do understand that right now you

    cant see beyond your misery and all  you

    can think of is that your life will never be

    the same again, but you are still grieving

    and seeing everyone getting on with there

    lives and laughing just makes you feel

    worse, Fifi you have to give yourself time,

    healing doesn,t happen over night, and

    believe me things will get better one day,.

    Your mum will always be in you and your

    sisters heart and im sure she is watching

    over you both as i know my mum is.

    With Love Lucy Lee. xxx

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    i know this wont help.....but i myself have non hodgkins lymphoma......i tell my partner that IF this thing kills me then she had better make sure hse doesnt sit and feel sad .....i need her to live and laugh and smile and still enjoy the joys of life....if she doesnt then i will soooo come back and haunt her......im sure your mum loved you...of course she did.....you know, your mum sooooo wants you to be ok and she sure wants you to remember her with a smile and yes even a laugh...she doesnt want you to be sad and down and hurt....i soooo hope at christmas time , infact at all times....you will enjoy your life and the years to come just as your mum would sooo want you to.....i know my post might sound stupid.....i know it might not be of any help....the living must live for those who have gone....well thats what i will want in my case.....i hope things get beter for you if only bit by bit....my dad died on the 8th november and i say the same to my mum....my dad would not want my mum to be sad all the time.....he would not want me to be sad all the time...i will remember all the good christmas days i had thanks to my dad and i will be happy because i know he would be sooo mad if i wasnt.....anyway...all the best....hugs..

  • FormerMember
    FormerMember

    Yep, it hurts.  I see she has left you some wonderful memories of Christmas.  My mother died of cancer and my family is now just me and my sister also.  Only now I have cancer and my sis is having preventive surgery for cancer (it's OvCa).  I look and listen at others and feel the same way you do but I hear my mother 'saying things' in my ear and I feel better (I remember things she has said to us whenever we were sad while she was still with us and very ill).  Even from 'beyond' she is still with me.  Quietly listen and you will 'hear' your mother still helping you through this awful time...remember her words...xx