I’ve just joined the group as sadly my wonderful husband left me yesterday morning. He’d battled prostate cancer for some years but it had grown resistant to all treatments and the last option, Radium 223, had only weakened him. He was admitted to hospital 4 weeks ago with urine retention and his condition deteriorated rapidly during that time due to several infections including covid.
We’d been married 54 years and were very close so I’m feeling choked up and very lonely at the moment, no longer being able to share all the special jokes and memories we’ve made over the years and remembering all the places we were planning to go back to. Life seems very joyless now.
Eventually you might be able to distract yourself and while the pain is close to the surface it's maybe not so acute. It was the second anniversary of my husband's funeral last week and I realised the day had passed without my weeping.
I am so sorry for your loss I lost my husband in January after a two and a half half year battle with pancreatic cancer, he was only 55. It is really hard losing your life partner and I remember those early days only too well. We all understand how you are feeling, after nearly 10 months I am gradually learning to take his love and my loss with me through it all but it isn’t an easy journey in any way.
Vicki
I didn't even realise that Jay had gone even though I was sitting at his bedside. He was lapsing in and out of consciousness all the time and when he finally went I just thought he had went back to sleep and he did but for good and didn't realise until I nudged him and lifted his arm and never got a reaction
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