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Grief and loss

Loss of a child to brain cancer

Hi my name is Amanda and I lost my 6 year old daughter Ava to brain cancer almost 4 years ago. SInce Ava passed I have found it difficult to find bereavement support and I found this community today. I thought I might try here to see if there are other parents who ...Read More

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Anticipatory Grief and loneliness

Hi, after over 7 years stage 4 bowel cancer treatments, my husband is now under palliative care team. Had a recent stay in hospice for pain management. Still trying to find a suitable trial however he has other chronic conditions impacting eligibility. We have two...Read More

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Organising a living will when loved one is in denial

Hello all.We're nearing the end of a pretty awful 2 years of complicated treatment for my mum. She's had 3 lots of different treatment, multiple surgeries and just lots of medical confusion, hope-to-despair whiplash and trauma. She's got ADHD and struggled to plan...Read More

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I don't know how to cope

Six days ago, my dad was diagnosed with stage 4b gallbladder cancer, which had spread to his liver, both lungs and lymph system. Suddenly here I am at his bedside in palliative care, and he has a week or so to live. My dad is my best person. My best friend. We knew...Read More

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Cancer for both of us.

December 1st, 2022, I finally learnt after so many tests, MRI's and pet scans and biopsy, I had very aggressive Synovial Sarcoma in my inner left thigh. Two weeks later, I started 5 weeks of daily radiation. March 2023, a successful removal of the cancer along with...Read More

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Cancer is so cruel.

My dad was diagnosed with stage 4 small cell lung cancer on May 15, 2024. He was given 6 weeks, they actually were shocked he made it through the night. From the beginning, it was blow after blow — it had already spread to his pancreas, liver, bones, and later his ...Read More

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Traumatised by the death of my mum from lung cancer with brain mets

My mum, 65, was diagnosed with lung cancer and brain mets at the end of January. I live in Brisbane, but I flew home to the UK when I heard this news. Mums initial symptoms were a cough, shortness of breath and weakness on the right side. In the fist week after he...Read More

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What to do after Mums funeral

My mum was diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer on the 4th of January 2024. They gave her a prognosis of 6-24 months. She got 2 months and 1 day. The past 2 and half months have been such a blur and it’s felt like 7. 2 days ago we had the funeral and now that I’m ...Read More

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Post grief after 2 years

My beautiful mum passed away on December 2021. She never got to meet my son or see me get married which all happened a year after 2022. I have been through so much during my mums cancer that i had never even thought about what it would be like once shes gone. Even...Read More

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Lost my beautiful Mum and my soul is destroyed.

I'm writing on here as I lost my Mum 8 weeks ago and I'm so broken. My beautiful Mum got sick in February 2024. It was such a rare disease that she had. She had what is called Paraneoplastic Cerebellar Degeneration which was caused by a tumor. Its so rare and it ba...Read More

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