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My beautiful Nana

holly200
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Hi there,

Only a week ago, my beautiful nana died peacefully of brain cancer. She was diagnosed back in July for a Grade 4 Brain tumour. For a while she was OK, but then after having radiotherapy, she seemed to suffer from memory loss and found it more and more difficult to talk. 

When she was diagnosed, she was expected to live two years, but only managed to live four months of that time. 

She will be sadly missed, she was a wonderful Nana who was one of the most loving and caring person i was ever lucky enough to call my nana. 

Wondering if anyone had any techniques for dealing with bearevement, as i am only a young teenager and this is my first experience of a family death?

Thank you

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  • Dear Holly,

    I'm so sorry to hear about your nana. Our sincere condolences from everyone here at Cancer Chat.

    As you asked for advice, there are a couple of pages I wanted to share with you and hopefully they can help you a little, the first one is a page from our website that talks about the grief process and offers some suggestions on how to deal with this difficult time, you can read more by clicking here. The other one, and perhaps the more appropriate to your age group is a platform similar to ours called riprap that helps teenagers to deal with the loss of a loved one to cancer.

    I hope this information helps. And if you ever need a friendly ear we are here to listen.

    Warm wishes,

    Renata, Cancer Chat Moderator

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  • Dear Holly,

    I'm so sorry to hear about your nana. Our sincere condolences from everyone here at Cancer Chat.

    As you asked for advice, there are a couple of pages I wanted to share with you and hopefully they can help you a little, the first one is a page from our website that talks about the grief process and offers some suggestions on how to deal with this difficult time, you can read more by clicking here. The other one, and perhaps the more appropriate to your age group is a platform similar to ours called riprap that helps teenagers to deal with the loss of a loved one to cancer.

    I hope this information helps. And if you ever need a friendly ear we are here to listen.

    Warm wishes,

    Renata, Cancer Chat Moderator

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