Cancer has taken my husband

I only joined cancer chat on 07/01/016 and a month later I am reporting his passing.

Yesterday,08/02/16 at 1.20am my darling husband, Nigel,52 ,of 25 years, passed away.

He was taken from me by this evil, wicked ,horrible disease.

He was diagnosed in June with metastatic melanoma, stage 4 skin cancer.

Despite treatment and his brave and positive battle with this vile disease, he lost and it won.

 

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  • Hi Paddock3

    I am at the same stage as you, my wife lost her 18 month battle with peritoneal cancer on the 16 th Feb having spent the last 8 weeks in the hospice.

    Iam sat here today waiting, as it is her funeral tomorrow, just want yo get through the day.

    Keep posting, I will be here as will all the other new friends you now have.

    It's nice to have a hand to hold. 

     

    Deggsy

  • I would like to wish you strength and courage, for tomorrow and the times ahead. 

  • Thanks all,

    Yesterday went well, stupidly, I can almost say I enjoyed the day. The sadness was outweighed by all the friends of Gills who turned up in numbers from far and wide and friends of mine from all parts of the country came to support me. Not only did they attend but all wanted to contribute to the tributes paid. Whatever it has given me today a feeling of some inner peace, still missing her like mad, but today was not a bad day. Yes Graham you got it right!

  • Glad it went well

    Melanie was a semi-professional artist and when she died we sat there in the house and found that we were drowning in pictures - Many people wanted a "souvenir" of her and so  we decided that after the funeral we would sell her pictures for Cancer Research in the function room of the pub where she and her friends used to have exhibitions.

    It made the end of the day fantastic to realise we had raised about 4 thousand pounds

    Still makes me smile that she missed her only one woman show and how cross she'd have been at that!

    I'm glad the day went well for you and all - this next time will be the tough time though as everybody goes back to their lives but I guess you know that.

    Stay strong :)

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  • Glad it went well

    Melanie was a semi-professional artist and when she died we sat there in the house and found that we were drowning in pictures - Many people wanted a "souvenir" of her and so  we decided that after the funeral we would sell her pictures for Cancer Research in the function room of the pub where she and her friends used to have exhibitions.

    It made the end of the day fantastic to realise we had raised about 4 thousand pounds

    Still makes me smile that she missed her only one woman show and how cross she'd have been at that!

    I'm glad the day went well for you and all - this next time will be the tough time though as everybody goes back to their lives but I guess you know that.

    Stay strong :)

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