Loss of an adult child

I lost my beautiful kind and talented daughter to stomach cancer at the age of 26 in October 2014. I see so many posts from people who have lost parents and partners to cancer but nothing from bereaved parents. I am struggling to cope with my grief I have two other daughters who need me to be strong I am divorced and am supporting a male friend who has just had his third liver resection for secondary bowel cancer. I have days like today when I can't eat or get out of bed but I have to work full time as a primary school teacher to support myself. I would love to hear from other bereaved parents who know what I am going through

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  • Hello my daughter 46 found out last week that she had advanced liver cancer , and the prognosis is week or months . I am devastated I don't know what to say or what to do . I feel so useless Dads are suppose to know what to do . I cry when I think about her and just find it so difficult to understand what is happening .
  •                       MY CHILD ....

    I LOVE YOU TO THE MOON AND BACK ....... AND THEN WAY FAR BEOND ....       

    WITHOUT YOU HERE TO GIVE ME LIFE .......MY HEART DOES NOT GO ON ....

    FOR YOU MY CHILD, WERE LIFE TO ME ......the song within my soul ....

    Without you I am empty .... A half that once was whole ....

    No matter where you are my child ... Just know you'll always be ....

    As close as my next heartbeat  .......for your heart resides in me ...

    I'll always be your mother .....you'll always be my child ...

    For in my heart , I keep your love ... And one day we'll meet again ...

    . Forever our babies  ....   

  • My name is Charlotte.  My son has not passed yet, but it's coming soon. He is my baby of 3 children and will turn 26 on Thursday.  I always play a strong part, but daily I am falling apart. He is so thin his once muscular frame of 215lbs now is that of a small child. His body and eyes are dark yellow.  He hurts and lays down now most of his days. He barely eats. It is all so heartbreaking I just want to fix him and I cant..... I wonder obsessively every day, how much time do we have left. Its so hard to sleep or rat. I feel guilty to do either because he is suffering so. I just hate this