10 days ago my Mum passed away, after just 3 weeks fighting Cancer.
6 weeks ago my Mum was perfectly healthy, driving out of town to the shopping centre, getting her hair done, you know, typical Mum things.
Then out of the blue, Mum phoned me, she said she was feeling unwell, and would I pop by.
She lived alone as a widower, my Dad died last year from a heart attack.
There is only me, and my brother in the family, so we are all very close.
I arrived at Mums to find her sat on the sofa in tears due to the pain she was in.
I immediately called Mums doctor, who arrived within 40 minutes.
He checked her stats, and said they all seemed fine, then did further checks and said he was worried because she seemed to have pain all over her body, but there was nothing obviously wrong, so he said he wanted her to go to hospital.
Mum being mum immediately tried to walk to the bathroom to do her hair, but she couldn't walk. Her legs just wouldn't hold her.
Yet just 6 hours earlier she had showered and got dressed.
The ambulance arrived and took mum off to hospital, I collected my brother and followed behind.
We arrived an hour after Mum, and when we got there, we were struck by the sheer number of staff looking after Mum.
A nurse took us to one side, and said the were running several tests, and would have all the rresults back within 24hrs, but until then, they would control Mums pain.
The next day we went back to the hospital, to find mum in tears.
The Doctor had just told her she had Cancer.
It was in the lung, but it had spread to her liver, and then into her bone.
Within 24 hours of feeling ill we were told Mum was dying.
I felt like I'd been hit by a train.
3 weeks to the day, Mum passed away, with me and my brother at her side.
My poor mum spent the last week unable to speak or move. She could only communicate by moving her fingers.
I've never felt so helpless, so useless, in all of my 35 years.
Mum was cremated yesterday.
Both me and my brother are devastated
I'm sorry to make a first post like this, but I need to get if off my chest somewhere, some how.
