Can't remember the good times

I lost my husband to lung cancer last week he died the day before his treatment was due to start i only had 4 weeks to come to terms with the fact he had cancer then I lost him the problem is I can only think of the last 3 days of his life not the 20 wonderful year's we spent together .

The last week of his life whent down hill on the Monday he had a blood test to make shore he was ok to start treatment and I had to give him a strip wash it was the first time I had to do itand it upset us both as he was a proud man and all I could think was i can't do it as I didn't know what I was doing that night we had to go straight to hospital as his sodium levels were low he told me he was really scared but I just told him that they were just going to do some tests and send him home he never left hospital 2 days later he was gone 

All I feel is gilt because I said i couldn't handle it 

  • Kate I am so so sorry for your loss xx

  • Hi there ...

    Firstly realise your in the raw pain stage ... there's no easy way round it ... but telling your self it's o.k to have these feelings will help a tad ..

    I don't think there's many of us that havnt gone through this journey or watched someone go through it who didn't want to scream .. I can't do this ... and many did scream it .. know your not super woman... your just human .. we all are .. 

    I've gone though my cancer journey ... and this year watched helpless as my 17/18 year old granddaughter Jess go through acute myeloid leukaemia... through 7 months of chemo , radio and stem cell transplant...  every day she smiled through it .. but it took a huge toll on her and us who loved her .. and many times thought we can't do this ...

    Now it would be all to easy to remember her and the treatment she went through .. that's what cancer wants .. then we become it's victims to .. because it erased the good times .... but please don't let it ..

    At Jess good bye one of her favorite records was played .. "good times" by all time low... play it listen to the words ... 

    They are not cancer ... they are the person we knew every day befor cancer touched them ... every time you shut out cancer and remember the good times ... wer sticking two fingers up to cancer... telling it it will never take away the person they were ... we will hold them in our hearts and well take them along with us ... just keep the funniest memory you have ... and when the bad memories overwhelm you ... close your eyes and relive it ... word for word .. how you felt .. slowly over and over till a smile replaces bad thoughts ... don't let cancer win ... I remember me and Jess having a girlie flick day ... we sat on the floor , with lots of pop corn... and coke ... watching the film " nativity "   and it was so funny .. and now .. I will do as her song says ... remember the good times ... sending you a vertual hug... chrissie xx