Hi, I have just joined this forum and I wonder if there is anyone out there who can help. It probably sounds ridiculous because I am a professional woman in my fifties but I am in the most intense pain and grief over losing my mum to colon cancer. She is in the hospital and over the last four weeks, we have gone from her having a year to live, to months and now weeks. My mum has been everything to me, my best friend, everything and I am so frightened at the thought of life without her. I don't have anyone in the family I can talk to. Please, please help me.