Please help not coping :(

Hi, we found out 3 weeks ago that my mum’s lymphoma is terminal and I just can’t accept it, I’m trying to be positive and strong but it’s so hard. 

My mum has started taking an oral chemo tablet to try and keep things at bay but she has lost weight and is so lethargic. 

I’ve stopped working for now and I stay most nights or at least until she goes to bed but it’s so hard seeing her like this, I’m hoping and praying this tablet will help and I’m trying my best to help her out weight back on and wash her etc. 

My dad hasn’t really accepted either and doesn’t say much and my other siblings are just carrying on with their normal lives. I feel angry at this :( I’ve stopped my normal life to help my mum and I have my own business and my own family a partner and son but my mum needs me more right now. 

I don’t know how to accept it as I pray for a miracle daily in the hope this chemo drug will give us a lot more time but I constantly feel sick with worry :(

 

any advice greatly appreciated 

  • Hello Midlandsvn; welcome to the forum.    I am sorry to read that your mum has a terminal diagnosis; having lost my own mum to cancer (some years ago now) I remember how impossible it was to come to terms with this.    You are trying hard to do the right thing but I wonder if you have spoken to your siblings to arrange how you can share the care of your mum.  They may feel you are coping so well that they don't have to bother!  Just spell out that you cannot keep on in this way and arrange a rota or some such.  Be firm but nice about it.  Have you tried to talk with your dad about how he is feeling?  Of course it may seem impossible to him also that he is going to lose his wife but it might help if he could talk about his feelings.  I am sorry that so much has fallen on your shoulders but hope you can arange a better situation that that which you now find yourself.  Best wishes.  Annie