Hurting loads

I had thought I was doing better this year but now I feel just as bad as before.  This week it is a year since I was told my Dad was dying, and it is 6 months since my Mum died.  I'm re-living so many memories, my Dad's death in March, watching my Mum grief stricken.  Me trying desperately to help her rebuild her life only for her to be diagnosed with the same cancer in June.  Then watching her deteriorate just like my Dad, until she died in August.  I don't know how to cope anymore.  Losing one parent would have been awful, but if I still  had one we could have grieved together.  Now I've got myself in a state about their house, I so wanted to do the right thing and decided I would do the house up with a view to keeping it for the future and possibly renting.  Now work has started it is a major project, it is upsetting me and I now realise I couldn't rent it.  I wished I'd never started it but I guess I'll just need to do it up to sell.  I feel like I've done everything wrong.  I miss my parents so much, I don't like my life the way it is now. I don't want this unhappiness to carry on another year, I feel like I've lost the happy person I once was and I'm scared she'll never come back.  Sorry for rambling but I just need to write it down.

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  • Hi Hope. I'm sorry you are feeling so low. I can relate to the severe ups and downs that come with facing the prospect of losing one parent so soon after another. I too, like you, felt that at the beginning of 2014 we could start rebuilding our lives after losing my dad in December. After being given my mums diagnosis last week that now seems like a distant memory, and wholly pointless. Unfortunately there are no words of comfort I can offer you, this ordeal is just awful and there's not a lot that can make it much better. I have thought a lot in the past week about what will happen to the family home when my mum succumbs to her cancer. I am hoping that either me, my brother or my sister will be able to buy the house from the other two siblings.. However I will probably move to Bristol to be with my boyfriend and as I am a student would not be able to get a mortgage. That makes me feel awful as I would truly love to keep the family home in our family. But you must remember you can only do what you can do, and I am absolutely certain that your parents would not want you to put yourself through any undue stress for what is essentially bricks and mortar. You will always keep the memories with you, and they are all that truly matter now. My thoughts are with you, you give me hope that I can survive this emotional roller coaster. You are incredibly strong and I am sure you can get through this. Although the pain is very raw now with a lot of anniversaries coming thick and fast, I am hoping that once you enter the second year this pain will ease up a little. I'm here if you need to chat, thank-you for all the support you have provided me in the past few days. Sindy x

  • Hi Sindy,

    Thank you so much for your response.  I usual soldier on with things, but am just feeling really down at the moment.  I know I will get through it, it's just a rough ride.  I am so glad that I give you some hope, life is so cruel sometimes but I'm so glad there are so many lovely people on here to help us through.  Please let me know how things are, I do think of you as you are so young to be going through this ordeal.  Take care.  Hope x

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  • Hi Sindy,

    Thank you so much for your response.  I usual soldier on with things, but am just feeling really down at the moment.  I know I will get through it, it's just a rough ride.  I am so glad that I give you some hope, life is so cruel sometimes but I'm so glad there are so many lovely people on here to help us through.  Please let me know how things are, I do think of you as you are so young to be going through this ordeal.  Take care.  Hope x

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