Coping with loss at night

Hi everyone,

3 months after being diagnosed with secondary brain cancer, my beautiful Mum passed away yesterday on the 21st of August, 10 days after her 60th birthday. 

I cared for her a lot in this time and it physically and mentally exhausted me, although I would do it all over again a million times. Yesterday as I got into bed, I felt so shattered that I was convinced I would fall asleep in seconds and sleep for 12 hours straight – but apparently not! I probably had about 4 hours sleep in total and I'm beginning to realise that this is a really common part of grief.

I thought I'd start a new thread where people could come on at night and maybe chat to each other, or vent, or just say what they were up to instead of sleeping. Just an idea. Everyone on here is coping with an awful or imminent loss and I hope that this helps even just the tiniest bit x