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Grief and loss

How to deal with the anger in grief

I lost my 36 year old son to Melanoma B-raf gene mutation 8 weeks ago ...i want to connect to other Mums ..It was a terrible journey to watch my beautiful son suffer so much...He was a healthy man who jogged daily..never smoked.only drank socially, loved his job, ...Read More

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Re: Grieving

To leesnell.I totally understand your pain and anger.. i tend to vent my anger when i am out in public ..i cant tolerate a lot of things that people do or say...The home based pallative care team have kindly allowed me to have regular phone counselling with their ...Read More

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Grieving

As much people tell me it is going to get easier to deal with I can't see a way forward at the moment. Having days when I can't stop crying and feel so emotionally and physically drained. I find it hard to talk to poeple about it as no matter what they say it's no...Read More

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Reeling from the loss of my mum

So my mum lost her battle with pancreatic cancer at 1.44am today, surrounded by her four kids. I am reeling from it. She was ony diagnosed with the cancer in January and 4 months later she is gone. Mum was just tired when we visited her yesterday morning. But then ...Read More

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Trying to accept the loss

My husband has recently passed. He had MDS. He was only diagnosed November 2017 after 4 years of testing and 3 bone marrow biopsys. Thinking we had more time, treatment with vidaza started in February this year unfortunately this made everything worse. I was the ca...Read More

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I am new

Hi I am 31 and my mother has been gone for 2 years. She battled lung cancer for 3 years and heartbreakingly passed on 19/09/2014 at 67 years of age. The doctor had only given her 12 months and she kept this from us. We only found out at her funeral. I miss her more...Read More

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Finding a way forward

its been 2 years since my mum passed away from gallbladder cancer that spread throughout her entire body, we didnt have a close relationship and i grieve for the things that were left unsaid, at no time did she admit she was dying and left us without a word of what...Read More

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Cleaning out my mothers belongings

hi, I am hoping some one will have some advice for me. I am 44years old have 3 sisters around the same age. We have 14 children between us (except for the youngest). We lost our mum to cancer 2.5 years ago. I was ready for her death, she had suffered a long time an...Read More

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Grief

My husband passed away 10 days ago and today is one of the hardest - my tears wont stop and im so sad

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Until we meet again mum!

So, it's been nearly a month since my mum has passed from Pancreatic cancer. 3 days off her 5 month mark. Considering the circumstances I'm not doing too badly. I cry most nights well maybe sob but with being back at work has helped a lot. A lot more than I actuall...Read More

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