Lost my my mum on 16 sept

I feel so strange,  it's like life carried on but my mum died, she struggled with non small cell cancer in her lung for two years, I left my life in Cyprus to come back and be with her and try help her fight this evil disease, since she's gone I feel utterly helpless and lost in my life, I'm jobless as I quit everything to be with her, she was on immunotherpy trials after the cancer went into her rib she became bedridden , she fought the cancer hard for two yrs using medical marijuana, and I do think it helped her to eat. After the medical interventions radiotheropy, and immunotheropy I believe she got steadily worse. 

I feel this struggle fight ended, and now I feel no purpose in my life, my mum was my best friend and now I'm totally alone and very lost. Her death came very soon literally after she went to take pain management from a local hospice, she was cognitive and OK on the 3rd of Sept she died on the 12th she called me asking me to get her out of the hospice 16 th on the 14th she was drooling....and I barely able to speak and dad and I tried to get her taken out....16th she was supposed to leave to go home she died on the morning she was supposed to come home I didn't get to say goodbye she died before my dad and I could get to see her. I'm mortified with grief I have voicemails from her that I received it's all I got left of her I feel so lost miserable heartbroken. I need help with bereavement and I really don't know where to go

 

  • I’m so sorry you’ve been through all this, it sounds awful. You are grieving and it sounds like you’re in shock from how quickly everything happened. 

    This is a good place to start, reaching out here for help. There are a few ways you could look for bereavement support:

    - do your hospice have counselling contacts? My dad also died in a hospice on 16th September and they had a counsellor there whose number I asked for to contact when I need it. I haven’t been in touch with her yet but I will.

    - look up ‘Macmillan’ for your area. In my area they run drop in support sessions in local libraries

    - contact Cruse bereavement care - only thing with them is that they tend to have a waiting list

    are your friends and family a source of support?

    how you’re feeling is natural but horrible it’s all just like a horrible nightmare.

    sending you lots of love x

  • Hi Monikas daughter. . I'm Sonias daughter and I lost my mum to the same evil satanic disease on the 8th August. . My mum passed literally 6 weeks from diagnosis and I'm in exactly the same place as you. . The world doesn't feel the same and I know my life will never be the same. . I am literally heartbroken without her.  She was my soul mate and best friend. . And we had no time to not only adjust but to fight for her life. . The physical pain and the torment is crucifying but the calls and texts that just don't come anymore and the whole what's the point in any life without mum hits me on almost every waking hour. . I get clear signs that mum is still around us and for a minute that's all well and I'm lifted but SHE'S NOT HERE LIKE SHE USE TO BE. . And like you I feel lost. . I always text my mum to tell her I'd arrived at any long destination so I still do.  I text her randomly to tell her how much I love and miss her. . I don't turn her phone on because it will break my heart in a second. . But just to let you know that you're not alone.  I watched George Shelley Learning to grieve which helped me through that evening. . But experience from losing my dad and my brother taught me time heals. . But this sorrow is on another level. . Entirely. .