So my granny has untreatable lung cancer. I’m very close with my gran, my father wasn’t around so she was really my second parent.
she was diagnosed very recently and I was in the room when they told her, she broke down and said the only thing she wants before she goes is to see me graduate from uni in June. I don’t know how to do it
my dissertation is due under a month but I just don’t care about it or anything else, I live 70 miles away from my family for uni and I feel so alone.
my granny is like my best friend and all I want to do is graduate for her but I have no motivation, I’m crying all the time and I feel like such a failure. Watching her slowly fade away while I can’t keep up and I just feel like no one else understands.
it will haunt me forever if I don’t graduate for her but I just can’t
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