Supporting my friend

Hi Romilly24 

Welcome to our community and bless you for the care you offer your friend. The only experience I have anywhere near this is that my brother-in-law and his wife adopted a son though that was not as a result of cancer. 

There is a booklet you can get preparing a child for loss. I wonder if that might be helpful.

<<hugs>>

Steve

Many thanks Steve and for the booklet which I will pass on to my good friend.  Sadly our friend is now heavily sedated in the hospice.  They have removed her feeding tube which shocked me too.  Is that usual in palliative care?  Her daughter age 9 is in denial & yesterday didn’t want to go into the hospice.  Support workers came out to her and apparently got her to make a bracelet to give to her mother.  Social care have made contact with her father, who lives abroad.  He wants to do whatever his daughter wants with regards where she will live.  We as friends, were worried they might want to put her into care . Her grandmother is here looking after her from abroad but doesn’t speak any English.  She was updated via interpreters yesterday.  It’s absolutely tragic what’s happening.  Our lovely friend is young and for some reason had severe allergic reactions to chemo etc.  Feel very very sad   Life is so cruel …..