5 weeks. 10 weeks 15 weeks

 

When I first registered on this forum at the end of April I never thought I would find myself still posting here. I didn't think for a moment that my posts would end up being in the loss part of the forum. 

It took 5 weeks of tests and scans to diagnose my handsome Neil with incurable lung cancer. 

It took 10 weeks for the cancer to steal him away from me after his diagnosis even though he was receiving chemo and radiotherapy and was booked for gamma knife treatment. 

That's  15 weeks from start to finish for this vile disease to steal my man from me and utterly wreck our lives. Our future. :(

His Soul soared free almost 4 weeks ago. To begin with I felt as though I was in a protective bubble with me on the inside and grief and pain on the outside.  Now that bubble has burst :(

I'm lucky that I have my lovely daughter and her wife close by and they are supporting me but when I'm alone these waves of grief just swallow me up. Im so afraid of facing the future without him.

He was my rock. My wing man. My life. Whatever we did we did it together and having to face the world without him is so difficult. I know that soon I will have to find work to support myself. He was the main bread winner. For 34 years he was proud to support me so I only had to do little nifnaf jobs for some spending money. I have had bereavement benefit awarded for a year and I have a small portion of his pension awarded to me but I know I need to earn a living myself now. 

Coping with having to face the world, earn a living and coping with the loss of my main man. My best friend is just so painful

Netty

 

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    So sorry :-( we're at about the same time, they found my dad's cancer at the end of March in A&E, he was given days in april, then weeks in May, then days again, we cared for him at home, he was hard, he had broken his spine in two places too :-( we lost him on the 27th August, I honestly can't believe he's gone, it has't sunk in yet, but for my mum it has, not sure what to do for her.

    So sorry again 

  • dear justme2  sorry about your dad i lost my mum to ovarian cancer last december she only lasted three weeks in hospital since leaving our house to go there, we thought it was a stomach virus. but when she had the scan it turned out she had late stage four ovarian cancer, its a cancer that stays silent in its early stages and you do not carry any symptoms untill the dam cancer has advanced where its too late, mum did not get any treatment because the cancer had spread too far and it was hard to watchv her deteriote over the three weeks until she passed on the 27 december,mum had already been in remission from early stage breast cancer since 2011, was lucky then it had not spread, but at the end of the day the cancer always wins it way back, nearly ten months on i still find it hard and i do not know how long its going to take to get  over her, it seems nothing can be  worse losing parents, i lost my dad also to a heart attack when i was just nineteen he was only 47, mum was 74, it feels weird parentless but have to rely on three sisters now for support, hope you get the support you need to over come your loss,take care oggi

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  • dear justme2  sorry about your dad i lost my mum to ovarian cancer last december she only lasted three weeks in hospital since leaving our house to go there, we thought it was a stomach virus. but when she had the scan it turned out she had late stage four ovarian cancer, its a cancer that stays silent in its early stages and you do not carry any symptoms untill the dam cancer has advanced where its too late, mum did not get any treatment because the cancer had spread too far and it was hard to watchv her deteriote over the three weeks until she passed on the 27 december,mum had already been in remission from early stage breast cancer since 2011, was lucky then it had not spread, but at the end of the day the cancer always wins it way back, nearly ten months on i still find it hard and i do not know how long its going to take to get  over her, it seems nothing can be  worse losing parents, i lost my dad also to a heart attack when i was just nineteen he was only 47, mum was 74, it feels weird parentless but have to rely on three sisters now for support, hope you get the support you need to over come your loss,take care oggi

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