My mum is in the last days, I feel so unable to cope

Hi everyone

It's my first time here posting but I've read so many threads and hoping that people have some advice.

My mum has had a very short time between diagnosis and the time we were all told she has a few days to live.

She is really now becoming so unwell. She's in a hospice with days to live. I'm trying so, so hard to be grateful that I had this time with her, but I am also completely heartbroken. She's being so, so brave. And told me and my brother we are going to have to continue our lives, at the moment I can't see how I will do that. 

One moment, I feel positive and am thankful for the time that we had with her, she dedicated her whole life to raising me and my brother and for that I will be forever grateful but then at other times I'm struggling to breathe. It feels like a really bad dream that I'm desperatly trying to wake myself up from.

Seeing her in her hospital bed yesterday with us all around her with days to live at 55 feels unfair, and I'm utterly in dispair of the next coming months.

Does anyone have any tips on how to cope with this? I don't know if I'll be able to carry on. I feel angry becaise I don't feel people understand. My friends that I have told are trying to help, but whatever they say is just not enough right now. Is this normal?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • I just wanted to reach out and say I am going through the same thing with my dad. We were told it was curable and then 3 weeks ago told he had weeks to live. He has deteriorated now and it's breaking my heart. I can't imagine my life without him, he was the best daddy and best grandad to my 15month old. Xxx

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  • I just wanted to reach out and say I am going through the same thing with my dad. We were told it was curable and then 3 weeks ago told he had weeks to live. He has deteriorated now and it's breaking my heart. I can't imagine my life without him, he was the best daddy and best grandad to my 15month old. Xxx

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