We lost my mum on 1st June after a 3 year struggle with cancer. Despite knowing she was terminal, the shock of her leaving us is incomprehensible. I just don’t see how anything can be ok again?
Gosh I’m so sorry you lost both your parents and in such a short time period, I can’t imagine how awful that must have been.
I haven’t written much on here yet but I lost my mum on Friday 31 May. On the Wednesday before we were told quote clearly she wouldn’t die that week but that it would be a few months. That Wednesday was a big day and she saw all the people she wanted to. Then Thursday she just slept all day. 7.05 am on Friday I get “the call” saying I should go in and before I could get there at 7.52 she was gone. Whilst I’m not sure it was a conscious thing I think she had decided it was time and I also don’t think she would have wanted me or my brother to be there with her at “the end” with all that entails. That said I feel so bad I wasn’t with her.
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