struggling to cope after my husbands death

Hi i am new here and this is the first time i have posted anything. My Husband John died on 12th of July after being diagnosed in May this year with oesophageal cancer. I just feel lost and dont seem to be able to move on. He has always been a well man and even when diagnosed they said he was stage 4 and inoperable because it had gone into his liver. He had no symptoms at all apart from a small annoying but not painful feeling in his stomach. He asked if he could take his family on holiday before starting chemo, the consultant said that nothing major would happen in the next couple of weeks. we went ahead and booked a huge family holiday in spain. 4 days after arriving i found him collapsed on the kitchen floor. we rushed him to hospital where they said he was suffering from severe pancreatitusand kept him in for 2 weeks. we flew him home and he stayed at home for a week but was still very sick. he was taken into hospital again on the sunday and after a scan on the wednesday we were told that he didnt have a healthy piece of liver left and were told that he would only surrive another few days. he passes away 4 days later. i just dont know what to do i am all on my own and cannot stop crying, the tears are streaming down my face just writing this. i need help.

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  • I have recently lost my husband on the 4th July.He also had oesophageal cancer. I'm lost. I don't know what to do. I don't want to see or speak to anyone as it just upsets me.
  • Hello Lillyflies1964.  I am so very, very sorry to hear about your husband.  It is extremely early days yet and the shock of it will not have sunk in yet. I remember coming home from the hospital with our sons after my husband had died and telling them I wanted to be on my own so they went to their own homes.  I locked the front door and fell onto my knees and screamed into a cushion, I was howling like a wounded animal.  It is now nearly three years since he died in August 2014 and I still cry for what I have lost, I cry for the future I don't have with him anymore and I cry for the past and the memories we made over 50 years together.

    Life has never been the same since that terrible day, there is no joy in my life anymore, the only thing that kept me going was our German Shepherd dog, he was Peters dog really, he was always sat with him, then when Peter died he showered me with his love so for the past three years it has been Barney and me, I had to get up in a morning to see to him.  Then two weeks ago, our Barney who was now 8 years old suddenly died of cancer, I did not know he was ill until the morning of his death, no symptoms at all, now I have lost the only thing that kept me going. The house is empty and no longer a home.

    I honestly feel for you I really do and I wish I could tell you it gets better in time, but for me it hasn't, I am frozen in time really, I live in the past more than I live in the present, I look at photos, play our wedding videos and listen to our music.  I am not depressed as some people would like to think, I prefer to do what I am doing because it is when I was the happiest.  Perhaps as the years roll on I will feel better but I honestly don't know.  I accept my husband has died and I accept my pet has died but I do not like it, I hate the life I have even though I have a lovely home we shared nearly all our married lives but it is not the same, it never will be the same so I live day to day, on my own, seeing our sons and grandchildren every two weeks. I told my sons that this is the very first time in all my 74 years that I have lived alone with no-one or nothing else with me. Every single one of our family of the past have gone.  It is a lonely existence.

    I am thinking of you and everyone else on this site who are newly bereaved or have been bereaved for quite some time because I would not wish this on my worst enemy.

    Sending my best wishes to you.  Sheilaxx

     

     

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  • Hello Lillyflies1964.  I am so very, very sorry to hear about your husband.  It is extremely early days yet and the shock of it will not have sunk in yet. I remember coming home from the hospital with our sons after my husband had died and telling them I wanted to be on my own so they went to their own homes.  I locked the front door and fell onto my knees and screamed into a cushion, I was howling like a wounded animal.  It is now nearly three years since he died in August 2014 and I still cry for what I have lost, I cry for the future I don't have with him anymore and I cry for the past and the memories we made over 50 years together.

    Life has never been the same since that terrible day, there is no joy in my life anymore, the only thing that kept me going was our German Shepherd dog, he was Peters dog really, he was always sat with him, then when Peter died he showered me with his love so for the past three years it has been Barney and me, I had to get up in a morning to see to him.  Then two weeks ago, our Barney who was now 8 years old suddenly died of cancer, I did not know he was ill until the morning of his death, no symptoms at all, now I have lost the only thing that kept me going. The house is empty and no longer a home.

    I honestly feel for you I really do and I wish I could tell you it gets better in time, but for me it hasn't, I am frozen in time really, I live in the past more than I live in the present, I look at photos, play our wedding videos and listen to our music.  I am not depressed as some people would like to think, I prefer to do what I am doing because it is when I was the happiest.  Perhaps as the years roll on I will feel better but I honestly don't know.  I accept my husband has died and I accept my pet has died but I do not like it, I hate the life I have even though I have a lovely home we shared nearly all our married lives but it is not the same, it never will be the same so I live day to day, on my own, seeing our sons and grandchildren every two weeks. I told my sons that this is the very first time in all my 74 years that I have lived alone with no-one or nothing else with me. Every single one of our family of the past have gone.  It is a lonely existence.

    I am thinking of you and everyone else on this site who are newly bereaved or have been bereaved for quite some time because I would not wish this on my worst enemy.

    Sending my best wishes to you.  Sheilaxx

     

     

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