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Letting go emotionally

MollyRedSkirts
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It's so hard to let go, my family are everything to me. I think I am getting there in acceptance of the inevitable, particularly when I am in pain. Emotionally it is very hard though, the hardest thing of all.

I have done some practical things like a will,  that helps me.

Mostly it helps me to know I leave behind a wonderful family, that was surely what it was all about.

So to anyone here struggling watching a loved one leaving, just give them a hug and tell them how they made you the person that you are. Priceless.

 

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    Hello

    I'm new to this chat group.  I have my MRI on Monday.  I know it's going to be bad news.  Strangely, I can feel it in my body.  It's so weird the way the world can change so quickly.  All I can see are well people going about their business, and I don't feel part of it anymore.  I don't know how I will tell my grown up children.  How old are your children?  I feel like my world will be just about cancer and I don't know how it will be.  For a split second when I wake up, everything is normal.  Then I remember.  Where do you find the positives? I'm having to take Diazepam and Beta Blockers to keep me calm.  My friends are telling me it will be so much better when I get the details.  Will it?  I've been fighting the doctor for so many months to take me seriously, I've run out of fight.  Not religious but thought I would pop into the church today.  It was locked. Just my luck.  How are you getting there in acceptance?  The advert says 1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime.  Everyone looks healthy to me.  I feel I want to shout out in the street "Does anyone else here have cancer?" I hope you're having a good day today and have smiled. x 

     

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    Hello

    I'm new to this chat group.  I have my MRI on Monday.  I know it's going to be bad news.  Strangely, I can feel it in my body.  It's so weird the way the world can change so quickly.  All I can see are well people going about their business, and I don't feel part of it anymore.  I don't know how I will tell my grown up children.  How old are your children?  I feel like my world will be just about cancer and I don't know how it will be.  For a split second when I wake up, everything is normal.  Then I remember.  Where do you find the positives? I'm having to take Diazepam and Beta Blockers to keep me calm.  My friends are telling me it will be so much better when I get the details.  Will it?  I've been fighting the doctor for so many months to take me seriously, I've run out of fight.  Not religious but thought I would pop into the church today.  It was locked. Just my luck.  How are you getting there in acceptance?  The advert says 1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime.  Everyone looks healthy to me.  I feel I want to shout out in the street "Does anyone else here have cancer?" I hope you're having a good day today and have smiled. x 

     

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