Loss in the middle of a pandemic

I've been reading here but not posting for the last year as my best friend Eva, who received a diagnosis out of the blue of terminal cervical cancer, went through her illness. (And thank you to everyone who has posted here as it helped a lot reading your posts.) My friend passed away a week ago. The end was far easier than I had been dreading - she was well until the last few weeks and she passed away at home which is what she wanted. I'm so relieved for her, but of course the loss is terrible. We had been close friends for more than forty years and she was too young at 55. 

What feels so weird, though, is that I'm dealing with my grief in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. It seems like the whole world is caught up in that whereas I can't bring myself to care too much about it at the moment. I was wondering if anyone else was feeling that sense of disconnection from what the rest of the world is worrying about?

Sasha 

 

 

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  • I know exactly how you feel. I lost my mum last Wednesday morning and at the minute I couldn't care less about the coronavirus. My mum was my best friend, we lived together, holidayed together and even finished each other's sentences. We had lots of little jokes that nobody else understood and I can't believe I will never see or talk to her again in this life. Mum was only diagnosed with secondary breast cancer which had spread to her lungs in January. We knew she couldn't be cured but her oncologist was optimistic about extending her life with low dose chemo and herceptin. After just 2 weeks treatment mum developed a nasty chest infection and was taken into hospital. For 2 weeks the doctors were pleased with how the antibiotics were working but then they couldn't get her oxygen levels to stay up by themselves. We knew then it was only a matter of time but we thought weeks not days. In the end mum got home on Monday evening and passed away in the early hours of Wednesday morning. I'm so angry that she wanted home for the whole 3 weeks she was in hospital and didn't even get the chance to enjoy it for a few days. I am worried about the rest of my family but to be quite honest I don't think I'd care if I contracted coronavirus. And yes I know that is an awful thing to say while people are fighting for their lives but it's the truth. I'm only 51 but the only future I can see is me waiting to join her and I know that's not what she wanted for me but I can't help it. 

  • So sorry to hear about your mum:(. You must be devastated. I think your feelings at the moment are totally natural - my way of dealing with it is to make myself behave as if I care whether I get the coronavirus even though it's actually very hard to bother about it. So I do all the stuff I'm meant to in the the hope that one day I will be glad I did. I'm trying to look at it that my friend wanted to live and so I owe it to her to not throw my life away. It feels like something I can still do for her. Sending you strength, heart and best wishes x

     

          

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  • So sorry to hear about your mum:(. You must be devastated. I think your feelings at the moment are totally natural - my way of dealing with it is to make myself behave as if I care whether I get the coronavirus even though it's actually very hard to bother about it. So I do all the stuff I'm meant to in the the hope that one day I will be glad I did. I'm trying to look at it that my friend wanted to live and so I owe it to her to not throw my life away. It feels like something I can still do for her. Sending you strength, heart and best wishes x

     

          

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