Having such a strange day today, I started out feeling ok, trying to be positive, actually managed to do a little housework, even managed to empty 2 drawers of Tony's things. Did some shopping.
Then I just plummeted, rock in my stomach, feeling of despondency, every single thing a reminder.
Innocent things like adverts, full of couples, holidays, Christmas, brings me down.
Music always a reminder
Bake off - nope we'd have watched it together and thought oh we'll try that
Saturdays in general, sports day, Tony coming back from watching a live game somewhere - Hey, he'd shout when he got home.
Really not feeling it today :(
I feel just the same …. So hard, hope it gets easier in time. It’s the loneliness that I miss, I have family and friends but like you say when you see couples together happy etc etc that’s what I had once and I miss it …
Once again I had a pretty good day;
Nice walk to Sunday market - got a new winter dress.
Watched the Remembrance Parade.
Sat on the prom listening to and watching the sea.
Lunch in our cafe.
Afternoon with mum.
Home.
Been crying ever since.
Every time I stop, I catch sight of my beautiful Valen’s picture. And every time I feel a physical lurch as reality again kicks me in the gut.
Ive been screaming into a towel.
NO NO NO NO This is NOT happening.
Ohmygod ohmygod ohmygod wake me up from this nightmare.
Where is his text to say he is on the train home?
He’s gone, hasnt he?
I can’t bear this.
I can’t sleep but then that makes the night and early hours awake on my own so long.
He’s really not coming back is he?
How do you get out of this cycle?
I wish I could hug all of you feeling these exact same emotions.
I wish we could all hug this out.
The truth is, nothing can prepare you for the horror. How is it possible to experience this level of shock, pain and suffering ? My daughter has been signed off until after Christmas for trauma, and my son is having horrible nightmares. The house looks like a bomb has hit it, and I can’t find my car insurance policy. My emotions are all over the place, and I feel like I am failing. Xxx
It’s like being on a cliff top.
A precipice that we will topple either way.
Somedays I fall over the cliff and there is no stopping the downward trajectory.
For a few hours every day I fall back onto land and into the arms of those who hold me.
At least it is for a few hours everyday, and those hours get longer.
xx
I am having one of those moments now. I can’t seem to be able to think that any future is possible. We were together forty years. How do I look at life now ? At the moment, I don’t feel I even want to try. The loss is too much. It just feels so damn hopeless.
I’m tormenting myself with running over and over how this time 7 weeks ago played out.
At 12.50 we got the call from doc to say spread to brain stem.
12.55 the hope died in my beautiful Valen’s eyes.
3.30 arrived at hotel after journey where he mostly slept and I held back the tears.
4.00 I showered him and we laughed and giggled.
5.30 he managed all of 3 spoons of soup.
8.30 I tucked his blanket around him and made him comfy in the chair he would sleep in.
Now I’ll wait, pacing the house till 4.30am.
Every Wednesday/ Thursday I do this.
I’m praying I will become inured to it.
My best friend just texted to say she is thinking of me.
Don’t know what I’d without her.
Like you Kate, and so so many of us, I just can’t see a future where he isn’t a part of it.
Everything I have done so far has been things we had planned to do anyway; get a dining table and chairs, change his office into a craft room, look for a dog, get rid of the fridge freezer in the garage, get rid of the dvds.
But beyond that?
The only decision I’ve made is to get a sunflower and butterfly tattoo.
And to watch endless reruns of Bake Off tonight. Again.
Sending hugs and requesting one please. xx
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