Help with mums diagnosis

Hi 

 

New to this so bare with me. On friday my mum broke the news to my family that she has been diagnosed with untreatable lung cancer. She has been in stage 2 respiratory failure for a few years now and because of this there are no treatments available.

She and my dad seem really calm about this though i suspect this is shock. My sibling (2 sisters and a brother) are all in shock and not sure what to say or do.

 

I dont know what to feel sometimes i can carry on then others the greif engulfs me. I feel i cant keep talking to my family all the time in case i bug them. 

 

Need some advice on what to do/think/feel etc soooooooo confused

  • Hi there ...

    Think cancer confuses the best of us ... All in all, there's no right or wrong way to feel or act as everyone is different ... I'd say let your mum lead the way ... Just being there to hold her hand will be more help then you realise ... 

    I think everyone goes into shock for awhile, but if it were me, I'd want to make the most of every day ... There's still time to make memories ... Listen to each other, and leave nothing unsaid ... If your mum feels free to talk, there may be things she needs to say that maybe hard to hear ...

    My mum died suddenly and no time to tell her how amazing she was and how much I loved her ... You still have time to do what I couldn't ... It's a heartbreaking time but if you just tell mum your there for her as much or as little as she needs ... And I found those random texts just to say love you or thinking of you meant the world to me ... And share tears... That's part of loving someone ... 

    Sending you a vertual hug ... Chrissie x