My mam's GBM journey has ended

Sending you so much love. I lost my dad a year ago in August after an 8 month battle with GBM. Nothing can prepare you for this and the aftermath. I still have days where I cannot stop crying, the suddenness, the loss, what this disease took from him before it consumed him entirely. I think for me there will always be a life before I lost him and life after. Maybe a lot of people feel this when they lose a parent or close loved one but I am definitely finding it much easier to live with my grief and loss day to day and for a while I didn’t think I would ever be able to smile again. I truly hope you find a way through this too where you can begin to rebuild yourself after losing your mum and think back to all the special times and memories you had and made with your mum and smile. I promise it will begin to feel less heavy, here if you ever need someone to listen xxx

Thank you, sorry for your loss. My mam was giving 2 months nearly a year ago and lasted 10 months. No one does prepare you for it. It's horrendous. I know grief is different for everyone. 

These past few days have just felt so much hurt. I know she's out of pain, I keep thinking out, yeah I'll try to keep those memories with me especially on bad days xxx

I’m sending you my love too - this is such a horrible thing to happen and clearly you were close. Tlj is right, it does become less heavy, though it just hits you again unexpectedly sometimes. It’s good that you’re here in the forum though - it’s always been helpful to me and I’m sure it will be for you too.

I lost my dad to a GBM twelve years ago, then my brother to COVID at 47, and then I was diagnosed with a GBM in 2022 (though it was later reclassified). I’ve never felt like a strong person, but I’ve been getting through it day by day, and so will you. Be low, be scared, grieve - it doesn’t mean you’re not dealing with things.

Much much love to you - we’re all here together xxx

Thank you, so sorry you've been through so much! You just got to take it day by day some good some bad! 

It's such a horrendous disease to watch them take the person they once worse! Xxx

So sorry for your loss, Magpie. Try to take comfort from the fact that your mam is no longer suffering. A GBM journey is such a cruel one and it takes a long time for those left behind to begin to heal from it. 

Never feel you need to apologise for having a rant. It's allowed. Let those emotions out as its far healthier than bottling them all up. Take each day as it comes and be gentle with yourself. Bad days are allowed and like all the other ones, they pass. Your track record for getting through them is 100% so please don't lose sight of that.

It's over 2 years now since G passed and I still have the occasional off day or need to rant. Those emotions are part of what makes us human.

Sending healing love and light and hugs

Wee Me xx

️ of course.. and it’s still so recent for you. But in time, you can choose to remember the good stuff more than the bad. My mum didn’t - she only remembers Dad’s death, and my brother’s, but I try only to think of all the good stuff about them from before, and it really helps me. 

but for now, just keep going, and know that I’m giving you more hugs. It’s awful, but it won’t always be xxx ️