Grieving the future

My dad passed away 7 months ago, 5 months after being diagnosed with Oesophageal cancer. He died four weeks before my wedding and I walked down the aisle on my own. Every wedding I've been to this year I have sobbed when the FOB walks the bride down the aisle and during the FOB speech, knowing that I didn't get to have that experience.

My husband and I are now expecting our first child. It would have been my dad's first grandchild and he would have made the most amazing grandps. We have our 12 week scan tomorrow and whilst I can't wait to tell my mum, I'm so upset that this is yet another experience that I'll never be able to share with my Dad. 

I miss him so much and whilst I have so many happy memories to cherish at the moment I feel such an intense grief for all the future experiences that we'll never share, that I'll never really have a relationship with him as his adult child. 

 

  • This just breaks my heart to read, I am so sorry for your loss and how u are feeling. I lost my dad 3 weeks ago and I feel so empty and like I'm in some sort of shock, I honestly thought the more time goes on the more things get easier but I feel it's getting worse . My dad was diagnosed a year ago with stage 4 cancer so everybody assumes we were prepared. My dad died at his home in France with me and my mum who cared for him for 12 months, just us two and nurses. I was close to my dad before, but this brought us so much closer together. We never discussed death or anything we always remained positive and then one day he stopped walking and talking and my best friend was fading away in front of me. I wanted to be by his side at the end, I wanted to reassure him I was there , but i am completely distraught over seeing him take his last breath and there was absolutely nothing I could do...i have moments during my day where all of a sudden i have this voice screaming in my head telling me my dad has died and I should do something and then I realise there Is nothing I can do, I have no energy left to scream or cry ,I feel as if I break now I don't know if I can be fixed. 

  • I am so sorry for your loss, the pain is so awful. Tomorrow will make it 2 years since I lost my Dad, I can't believe all this time has passed since I last heard his voice or hugged him. I miss him so much, the worst thing about death is that it is permanent, there is no tomorrow and my heart breaks thinking about it. No matter what age you lose a parent the pain is the same but the younger you lose them the more memories/occasions you miss out on together. I too grieve for the future that will never be, the memories I won't be able to make with him. My brother's fiancee gave birth to Dad's first grandchild 2 months after he died and It hurts Dad never got to meet my nephew or any other grandchildren, he never got to see any of his kids married and missed seeing one kid graduate and the other begin Uni. When my brother got married it was painful that my Dad wasn't there and I know if I do get married I will feel the loss again. Take care of yourself, this road we are now forced to take is a hard one. Just take each day as it comes and try to live the best life you can for the.