Losing a young adult son to cancer

My wonderful son Edward died aged 23 from a ridiculously rare cancer that was non life style and not genetic.

He was diagnosed in February 2014 and died November 2015.

There seems to be so much support for so many people with cancer but I feel so alone being the mum of a young adult son that I've lost. I understand that it is a small area but with all the terrible things we went through to even be able to talk online with a mother who had no choice but to put her dying son into a hospice full of old people would help me to feel less alone.

Parents
  • I lost my son 6 weeks ago with a rare form of cancer MDS Myloid Dysplasia Syndrome, most people have never heard of it, a blood disorder, he was fit and healthy and looked after himself. He was diagnosed in April and died in September, spent the whole time in hospital, I went through it with him every day. He was In a hospice for the last 3 weeks, I go over those months and weeks and everything he went through, the image of him dying in my arms will never leave me. 

    i don't think people have any idea how it feels unless it happens to you.

     

     

  • Sorry for your loss 6 weeks it is so early Iost my son 4 weeks ago nobody knows how it feels unless it happen to you.I feel son lost now my son was I'll with cancer for a year nursed him in that time in and out of hospital andxfinaly hospice feel a massive gap in my life now and completely lost  

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  • Sorry for your loss 6 weeks it is so early Iost my son 4 weeks ago nobody knows how it feels unless it happen to you.I feel son lost now my son was I'll with cancer for a year nursed him in that time in and out of hospital andxfinaly hospice feel a massive gap in my life now and completely lost  

Children
  • I lost my son, aged 34 to Cancer. I was a single parent. He moved away from his adoptive Father and my ex wife aged 21. He became hostile to me, for no tangible explanation. The loss is beyond any rational. The worst part is, when you tell people you know, they treat you like a leper. You have to be a happy person?