Recently Lost my mum to secondary breast cancer

Hi everyone ,

im new to this site and not sure if I'm posting in the correct place

I have just lost my mum, my best friend to metastatic breast cancer, she was just 58 she passed away 3 weeks ago with all her family including myself by her side.

she was diagnosed 2.5 years ago then the cancer spread to her bones, but was controlled with hormone tablets for over a year.

then this year had spread again to liver and esophegus.she deteriorated quite quickly, so we decided it was for the best for her to go into loros for her final days where  she passed away.

im just feeling so sad and lonely now that she's not around and it's only been 3 weeks!

not sure how I will cope without her, my life feels so empty now.

im extremely sad that my mum will not be here to watch my baby boy grow up, all his first milestones I was looking forward to sharing them with mum, she adored her little grandson so much but for many months before she passed away she was so poorly and weak to be able to spend much time with us. I used to spend nearly every day with her now I can't even ever hear her voice again.

It's Such a cruel disease, life's so unfair sometimes, Iv just sat and read so many stories of people sadly in the same boat as me.

just hoping for some reassurance that it does get easier to cope at this awful time of my life. 

lisa x

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  • Hi Lisa,

    Sorry to read/hear your news,

    I lost my beautiful mum to MBC in Feb only 3 weeks after diagnosis, she was the most important person in the world to me and vice versa, true best friends.

    Even though some time has passed since Feb, in many ways it is still very raw, I don’t spend every second of everyday crying now like the first couple of months but continually have a lump in the back of my throat and that sinking feeling.

    I just turned 27 in November and my mum was 56, similar age to your mum and way too young to be taken away.

    Please just know you are not alone and unfortunately there are a lot of us here in the same boat I don’t have kids yet but when I do I pray my mum can see them from where she is.

     

    Feel free to message me on here if you ever want to chat xx

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  • Hi Lisa,

    Sorry to read/hear your news,

    I lost my beautiful mum to MBC in Feb only 3 weeks after diagnosis, she was the most important person in the world to me and vice versa, true best friends.

    Even though some time has passed since Feb, in many ways it is still very raw, I don’t spend every second of everyday crying now like the first couple of months but continually have a lump in the back of my throat and that sinking feeling.

    I just turned 27 in November and my mum was 56, similar age to your mum and way too young to be taken away.

    Please just know you are not alone and unfortunately there are a lot of us here in the same boat I don’t have kids yet but when I do I pray my mum can see them from where she is.

     

    Feel free to message me on here if you ever want to chat xx

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  • Hi alera,

    thank you for your message, I'm so sorry to hear about your mum too, only 3 weeks after diagnosis must have been such a shock, that's just heartbreaking.it's such a cruel world isn't it!! 

    Our mums are the most important people in our lives which makes it so difficult now that they are not with us.

    like you and your mum,my mum was/is my best friend we did everything  together.

    yes that's how I feel at the minute that sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach all day and feel so sad.

    everytime I go to visit the cemetery it just doesn't seem real still. I just think why are you in there, you should be here with us still enjoying life.

    im sure our mums will be watching down on us, out of pain and fear now. (Not that it makes us feel any better)

    i have booked a  reading with a medium soon so I hope my mum comes through to me, I do believe it all that sort of stuff so I think if she told me anything that only I would know about mum that would make me feel much better knowing her spirit is still with me.

    i myself am only 30, we are both so young to not have our mums here to help us through life and guide us , reassure us and just be our mums! 

    Im always here if u need a chat too. 

    lisa x