My dad has just passed

Hi everyone...  I have just lost my dad to AML,  after a 4 year battle,  after a stem. Cell transplant and further chemo for two years,  I was robbed by covid of 2 years of him as with his reduced immune system I couldn't go near him,  he also lost his mum and my grandma from covid,  he didn't even get to go to his own mother funeral... He passed at hospital holding my hand...his last words were.. I'm sorry to have let you down son. 

He was only 65 and was diagnosed 2 months after his 60th birthday just after retiring, a retirement he never got to see. 

 

I am struggling massively to cope with his death,  he was very fit,  didn't smoke or drink ate healthily.. Yet this disease took him away from us,  and his family... I have many questions,  none of which I have answers to

Why did this happen to him,  why did he get it,  why didn't the treatment fix him. I sure everyone here asks the same thing... My daughter was born on his 1st day of chemo and he never got to have a relationship or spend time with her... I feel robbed,  as he did...

Any answers fir anything would be possibly helpful towards me coping with this....

Kind regards

 

Tony

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  • Hi, just to say I feel your pain. I also have those questions after my dad recently passed away with liver cancer, and eventually a brain tumour, after being diagnosed at te start of the year - that had spread following skin cancer 6 years ago (that we thought had been removed and everything was ok). I feel frustrated that this was able to happen and now he's gone, after doing everything he could to stay here.I also feel sad for my 3 year old son who will not get to grow up with him. I don't have any advice except it's ok to feel everything you're feeling. I also remember those last moments with a mix of devastation and relief for him that he didn't have to go through that anymore. Doesn't make it any easier though.

  • Thank you for your reply... I to have a daughter she is 4 and had just started to get to know grandpa... She always asks is grandpa watching me and looking after me daddy... Always I say... My dad fought so hard for 4 years.to stay with us... I'm. Really struggling to cope, it's effecting my relationship with my wife, I just don't want to be at work, I've lost every ounce of enthusiasm. For anything, dealing with his estate is incredibly difficult, and people. Say these kind words, my friends and family, but I see them as just words and they bring no comfort and I don't know what to do.....

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  • Thank you for your reply... I to have a daughter she is 4 and had just started to get to know grandpa... She always asks is grandpa watching me and looking after me daddy... Always I say... My dad fought so hard for 4 years.to stay with us... I'm. Really struggling to cope, it's effecting my relationship with my wife, I just don't want to be at work, I've lost every ounce of enthusiasm. For anything, dealing with his estate is incredibly difficult, and people. Say these kind words, my friends and family, but I see them as just words and they bring no comfort and I don't know what to do.....

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