Lost my beautiful mom

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Sorry for everyones loss on here.

Ive just lost my mom 8 weeks ago for two years she had a cough and lost a significant amount of weight. We tried as a family to get her to go doctors and she refused. Then this year she started to get really poorly she started to collapse for no apparent reason and kept complaining her head didnt feel right  she had two collapses one in May and one September. But on the 23rd of October she went out shopping come home and cried out this almighty horrible cry and collapsed she split her head wide open and ended up with bleed on brain. She was operated on and it was successful but then we were told their was another bleed and she would be like a vegetable. We made descision not to put mum through anymore and let her go hardest descision of my life ever. But they did a chest x ray whilst she was in icu in hospital and they found a huge mass in her left breast we didnt even know as a family she had cancer. This has broken me as i believe my mum knew but she never told me im absoulty hearbroken ive lost her she was my best friend. Im really struggling to get my head round why this happened the way it did I just cant accept she gone. Its like torture in my head i keep seeing her so poorly in icu unit with tubes etc ive had nightmares over this and now im not sleeping properly im scared to close my eyes incase i have more nightmares. Im crying all the time life is so hard without her now she was my support network with my daughter who has Autism and now im on my own everything is effort i have no interest in things. Im trying hard for my daughter but im struggling. 

 

  • Hi Mand, I am so sorry to hear of the loss of your dear Mum, and I have no words really that can ease the pain of losing her.  I lost my Mum 10 years ago, and like your Mum. she was my best friend.  We went everywhere together, and I loved her dearly and she loved me.  Like you I missed he so much (still do), but in time it got easier, its such early days for you.  I wonder have you any good friends or any other members of the family you can turn to for some support.  Also I do know at our local hospice  have bereavement counsellors, I wonder if you phoned your GP surgery they could advise you.  I know a friend of mine was absolutely devastated when his partner died, he was in a terrible state, but after counselling he is now a lot, lot better.  I also think you made the right decision not to put your Mum through more treatment.  I have told my daughter that if I was going to have no quality of life I do not want anything done.  I have also signed a DNR at my GP's surgery.  If your Mum was anything like me, she would not want you to be unhappy (I and my daughter are best friends) I would not want my daughter to be sad.  I would say to her "Come on now, wipe you tears, think of all the good times we had together, I want you to have a good, happy life".  I know it is not going to be easy as your daughter has autism, but here are some words that an Unknown Author wrote:

           you can turn your back on tomorrow

              and live for yesterday Or you can be happy for tomorrow

           because of yesterday.   You can remember her and ache that she has gone

    Or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

      You can cry, close your mind, be empty and turn your back

    OR you can do what she would want:  SMILE, open your eyes, love and go on.

    Mary.