Life is unbearable without my soulmate

Hi 

Dont know how I got here or even why I'm writing this but here I am.

So my wife the most beautiful creature on this planet , the most caring , kind and gentle person i ever met got cancer and died in my arms at our home where my 15 year old son and i nursed her day and night between us for a long 10 months that i now wish had never ended despite the pain. 

My wife was just turned 38 when she died we were together from 17 , we have 3 children and a 2 year old grandson. 

For 2 years I took her and took her to the doctors about her tummy but they never *** listen they just come up with some fantastical *** about what they THINK it is as *** you off out the door with green slips for high earning pharmaceuticals! She even had a scan 18 months before diagnosis where they saw a 10mm shadow on her liver and decided no further investigation was necessary then in 2020 I got fed up took her to the hospital and demanded a CT scan we had been asking for for over a year as she couldn't walk .... they did it as they thought she may have appendicitis and low and behold ot was stage 4 bowel and liver cancer. We were *** devastated and so angry.

We made the decision to have quality over quantity and for me to be signed off by the GP to administer pain meds SC and just manage her symptoms with no interference except the wonderful nurses that called once a day in the last 2 months to order new pain meds , make sure my paperwork was upto scratch and help us get a bed , liquid foods etc.

After 3 months we returned the quacks at hospital who said ... hey good job you didnt have the surgery your bowel cancers have hardly grown but your liver tumours have grown rapidly so you would have put yourself through that for no reason ... phew .... IDIOTS 

We had some really good months choosing our own path , we laughed , when out into nature , cuddled , held hands and just loved and cherished each other then the liver grew Grew and GREW  My Em looked 9 months pregnant by the time she died her final weeks were horrendous but neither of us had any regrets. Over our last time together we forgave each other everything we felt we had too , We loved each other unconditional,  I carried her to the loo and bath until the day she died so she kept her dignity. Her last ever words were "I love you , I always will"

She breathed her last breath in my arms laid between my son and I after waking briefly to grasp his hand and look into my eyes and I told her "go baby , it's okay go , I love you"

Our daughters arrived minutes after she passed and we wailed , screamed , roared aloud in pain and anguish and then we bathed and cleaned her after she died and dressed her in what she had requested so nobody saw her naked. We cut her hair and painted her nails.

They came and took her away as I tried so hard not to crumble but fell to the floor. On her funeral we carried her into the crem , we had no orator or clergy I conducted her service from start to finish as she requested. 

Now 3months later my boy and I are home with no wife , no mother. The person i knew and loved from 17 to 38 is gone. The only person who ever cared about me and saved me from destruction and a savage childhood , the one who calmed my soul GONE .... 

Everyday we cry , everyday we try to stay positive, nobody seems to truly grasp what we went through or the complete sense of loss we feel so everyday both of us wish with all of our beings we had just died with our Em 

Thanks for listening 

Chris and Boedi

  • Hello mate I just thought I write to you on your own page and I'm truly sorry seems like you had the perfect family! I was talking to you on someone else's page so I thought I find you and say hi thank you for everything you're saying

  • Hi Chris 

    Thank you mate and it's only what I truly believe in mate I see and feel signs from her everyday I just absolutely crave and miss her physical presence. I know 1000s before her died like this misdiagnosed and in agony and sadly 1000s more I fear but essentially we have to just keep going bro and make our loves proud and show they didnt die for nothing x

  •  You seem an amazing person I'd love to meet up when we can? Are make sure my  wife didn't die for nothing just can't understand why her  my wife would say why not me  I'm just me! I love her mate and need her!  Can I ask when your  good lady passed away ?

  • Yes mate that would be good. I know what you mean dude I used to say to Em all the time I wish it was me you deserve to live more than me and she used to wink and say ahhh but they only take the good young hahaha still makes me laugh. I lost her 2 months ago bud , 3 months on the 26th.

  • We're about in the country are you?   Your so right about the good dying young I'm going to live forever lol. I just love your confidents how did you get like that  have you always felt like that ? 

  • Wow that was touching .  I think it helps to get it out there to go through all that has happened as it makes it more real although it doesn’t feel real! You had a tough time I know what you mean about the doctors not listening, my husband had a shadow on his lung and they just gave him antibiotics saying it was a chest infection!  Had to wait 6 weeks until they would do another x ray by that time it had grown then we went down the whole procedure of CT scans etc which all took too long and too late diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. I’m glad you had time to talk to your wife , it happened so suddenly with my husband as he was taken into hospital a&e but I did hold his hand and we both said I love you before he held his chest with a pain and then he went .  I completely understand your sense of loss and especially with having young children/adults .  There is not a day that I think of home and question why it happened to us .  We were such a close happy family.  But yes got to stay positive although very hard in these times especially when reminded about people dying everyday ! We could do with out this . Take care 

    Victoria x

  • Hope your ok today mate i'm nearly through another day x

  • Hey Victoria, 

    Sorry for the late reply I've been busy getting my brother to do a full portrait tatto of Em on my chest its beautiful x 

    Yes darlin we both had different scenarios but ultimately the same conclusion and pain. The one good thing I try to think of is that we are all connected in this and then that makes me think hey we are all connected in life full stop and although we may feel sometimes like our minds will break we keep going and that I feel is our true being and where our connection to everyone and everything stems.

    I'm truly grateful for meeting you 

     

     

  • Hi Chris mate 

    Yep a day of ups and downs buddy as always. Had a beautiful portrait of Em done on my chest then got home from my brothers all smiles and my boy was having a self loathing melt down which after about 2 hours of it I lost it and said things I shouldn't like we are all grieving get a grip mate , life is pain etc etc but then after I prayed to Em and connected to the earth and the source of creation I went up and just cuddled him. 

    Such a hard path for us all my friend , i hope your day had some glimpses of light 

  • I'm like that with my boys more so the nine year old  say maybe a bit to much  then just cuddle up with him for ages. Hard day again but it's nearly done   My mind is to struggling with fight or flight I've never been that good at that I wife's talk me through it so many times so I'm using her techniques and strength and the fact that she is with me is amazing because there's no way I can get through this alone