Hi
My mum has just been informed she only has 3 months to live. This has had a devastated impact on our family and I wanted to know ways of coping over the next 3 months. My brother and sister are also struggling with the news, we are all adults but it does not make it any easier.
Hi , I’m sorry your all going to have to go through this !!
We have had to go through this this year . It was the worst thing ever and still is ! How well is your mum? Is she able to walk etc ? Is she excepting the news ? One thing we wanted to do was go on a big family holiday and I wanted my mum to write down her recipes and little notes etc but to be honest she was told she had 12 months then the next week it was 6 . But all we had was 8 weeks . So we didn’t have the time to do it and my mum wasn’t excepting it . We all thought we had time . So don’t plan things just and go and do it now! Obviously if she is well enough . The last 4 weeks of my mums life was terrible she couldn’t do anything apart from get out of bed and get to her chair at a push with help .
sending positive thoughts your way and strength !
Thank you for your reply Buzzybee33. At the moment she is walking and getting out but it's the steroids helping her. We try and do all the things she likes to do but it's just so hard. I'm struggling with my emotions.
I am so sorry for the loss of your mum,.
Thanks ! It’s so hard isn’t it . I think you need to go with the emotions . Not sure what sort of family you are with emotions . My mum was always the one trying to be strong and really protected me and my brother through out our lives and she did it to the end she would not let us see her cry . But I think you need to talk about it all together and cry together.
its such a horrible thing to go through you need to do it together. Xx
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