Afternoon all,
I don’t really know why I’ve come on today, having a tearful day. I lost my beautiful Dad in February 2022 to Lung Cancer, we are just past the 7 months mark. I think about him 24/7, I miss him so much, I still can’t believe he isn’t here and as time goes on it doesn’t get easier, the more we do the harder it is because he isn’t here to do it all with us.
I keep thinking about the rough time he had from diagnosis to losing him, he went through so much. He was diagnosed in June 2021. We all spent the last few days with him at the hospital, we watched him take his last breaths and it was hardest, most heartbreaking, cruelest situation I have ever witnessed and he deserved so much better. My Mum and Dad were together 53 years and it was their 50th wedding anniversary in May, she now lives alone. We talk about him all the time, we have photos all around and we make sure he is part of our daily lives. I wish more than anything he was here. I never thought I would lose my Dad at 38.
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I lost my dad a few weeks ago to lung cancer and was in a similar situation, being in the hospital as he went. You're right it is excruciating. I simultaneously felt it wasn't something I should have had to witness but wouldn't have not been by his side. I'm so sorry for your loss and your pain, so much too soon. I was reading one of the bereavement guides the hopsital sends out where I am and they have little quotes through them, one was from Winnie the Pooh that said 'How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard'. When I read it I balled my eyes out, but I felt it was true and it helped me a little to think of it that way. Thinking of you and your mum, sending love x
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