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I just lost my mom on February 17th, Ash Wednesday. I don't know if you could ever be "prepared" but it was kind of unexpected. She was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer the 2nd week of September,…Continue
Started by Amelli Gomez. Last reply by dream moon JO B Apr 9, 2021.
Hi, I'm new around here. My mother passed away on Saturday February 6th, very suddenly and unexpectedly. We were in touch every day, via text, e-mail and phone calls, and we saw each other every…Continue
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I can relate to almost everything I read here.....I lost my Mom on 9/24/2017. We lived together since 2008. I became her primary care giver in 2011 after she broke her hip. She developed Dementia…Continue
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Hi! I'm a new member. My name is Emily. My mom died Dec 27,2012. I had a question for anyone in the group............. Does anyone ever feel torn-part of them wants to be with friends but the other…Continue
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Hi, my name is Karen C. and my heart hurts from the loss of my mother 6 months ago. I took care of her from a stroke, for 12 years 24/7 and was homebound. I love her very much and we enjoyed each other. She was such a big part of my life and I am lost without her. Everything I do, she is on my mind for I did so much for her care and life. My life was her and now life does not mean much. I smile with other people but it is not the same and I know it never will be. I still cannot believe she is not here with me. Even though she was wheelchair bound, I needed her more then she needed me. I can relate to all the stories here and to know I am not alone in feeing this way. Mom and I were faithful believers and that is what has kept me going and has given me peace when I ask for it, peace beyond understanding. I have to grieve and feel the pain to heal and get myself into a new normal of life, which that is what Hospice tells me. I want so much to hear her voice and talk with her and most of all to hug her and tell her I love her. She was such a compassionate and loving and kind person to everyone she met. There will always be a hole in my heart that no one can ever fill for she was my mother. A rare jewel on this earth but now a diamond in heaven. Karen
My name is Crystal and I am 31. My mother just passed away at age 52 (almost 1 year after my Aunt Laura died of cancer). My mom's death was tragic and completely unexpected. She had been 14 year sober, or so we thought, from a drug and alcohol addiction. The night my mom died, her sister was there and said my mom was sleeping and moaning and gurgling and that she tried to wake her but couldn't so she thought she was just really tired so she left her alone and went to bed. The next morning when my Aunt KC went in to check on my mom, she was dead. I got the call from my aunt on that Memorial day morning around 9AM, while my husband and I were loading our children in the car at my in-laws house (5 hours away from where my mom was). I remember answering the call, thinking it was my mom since the call came from her phone, and hearing my aunt on the other end say "Crystal, your mom died last night". next thing I know I just hit the ground and started yelling out in the worst kind of pain I have ever felt. I cried so hard and so much I started to pass out. I couldn't believe what I just heard. I just saw my mom 5 days before that and talked to her on the phone 3 days before that. Everything was fine! she was normal happy and totally fine! Well come to find out, the medical examiner found two patches called fentanyl on her back. These patches are apparently one of the STRONGEST pain medications ever made. 100 times more potent than morphine! usually a person isn't supposed to use more than 1 in a 72 hour period. She used 2 at the same time... 4 weeks later the toxicology report concluded she died from overdose of fentanyl. My mom was my best friend and always coming over to see my kids. I am not close to anyone else in my family so I feel like I have lost my heart. How does one go on living without their heart?
I lost my Mom on 3/19/13...it was very sudden and totally unexpected. My life will never be the same. I miss her so very much. I feel like part of me died with her. I'm not looking forward to Sunday. I just wish things could be different. I just feel so overwhelmed and my mind races constantly. I'm always thinking about her. Some days its just so much to deal with. I just want to cry.
My mother passed away in Feb. 2012 at the age of 42. Even though it has already been a year, it still feels like it just happened and I still think about her every day. Nobody really understands what I'm going through and my friends were so unsupportive that I just got rid of them. I had no other family accept for her accept my unstable aunt who wouldn't even pay for a funeral or write an obituary even though she has three cars, two houses, and several hundred acres of land. She made sure that she got every last thing that belonged to my mother though. My mother was my only family and I have been so lost in life without her. This is a cold cold world and nobody actually cares about anybody and I'm so scared because I know nobody is ever going to love me like she did ever again. I have a hard time finding people that care about me at all because I'm socially awkward and I'm just so scared without her.
I can so relate to everyone on this site.My Mom died Dec 20 2011.I sat by her side watching her slip away for nine days.Iwas lucky enough to be able to say everything I wanted to say before she lost conciousness.Iwanted to scream and cry for her not to go.But my sisters would have killed me and it wold have been harder for her.Her death was the worst thing that has ever happened to me.There isn't a day that goes by I don't think of her.Ifeel she is around me still.And the only thing that keeps me going is I know I will see her in heaven
Dear Melissa,
I am so sad for your loss. How awful. This site is a great source of ssupport. My mom passed June 26, 2013. It is still difficult every day. Take one hour at a time. Sue
It's been 19 days since she's gone. She underwent surgery for her knee, it wasn't supposed to be that big of a deal. But one of the medications they gave her was what killed her (teamed with a condition we didn't know she had). This was 12 days after the surgery. I didn't know she was so ill. She had seen her doctor the day before! I never once imagined she could die. I didn't tell her how much I loved her and how proud I was of her for bringing me up on her own. I was on the other room when she passed away... I feel like I've been struck and can't understand what's going on and what I'm going to do with myself from now on. She was my life, my home.
I also feel like our life together was a million years ago and can't remember her voice or gestures. I wish I had been a better daughter, not acting as if I was going to have her forever. I wish I hadn't taken her health for granted, the day after she passed I started remembering things and thought ''How didn't I realize she was seriously ill and called the ambulance before??''.
I'm depressed and can remember mostly the sad things about her life. She didn't have it easy... I think of these things and my heart breaks. I can't believe how I felt so miserable before, compared with what I'm going through now, our life before was heaven.
I'd like to think I'm going to see her some day, but maybe it's just wishful thinking? I have virtually no one that understands me like her and loves me like her, or someone with a sense of humor like hers!
I too am so lost without my mom. she died sept 13, 2008. She was my best friend. We were a team. Everyday I miss her so but i am coping the best i can. I think the hardest thing is not having her here to talk to and share things with. She is also not seeing my daughter grow up and she meant everything to her. I have friend but no one close like I was with my mom. some days are better than other but today is difficult maybe because of the holidays. this was her favorite time of year. I wish i could just forget the holidays but i cant because of my daughter so i am pretending to enjoy it eventhough inside my heart is breaking. when is it going to get easier
Hi Jane't, I am sorry for your loss. My mom passed away July 22, 2012 suddenly as well. I later found out that she had pneumonia that had gotten into her blood stream and began to shut down her organs. She had just left visiting my daughter and I in California and had to be admitted to the critical care unit when she got home. She died the next day. I didn't make it there in time. I was 32 weeks pregnant. I continuously question myself with "what if's". I wish I had insisted that she go to the emergency room while she was visiting me.
I also feel that my mom was taken too soon. It's so unfair and I feel that God got it wrong. She didn't even get to meet my son. I want her back so badly. It kills me that I have to go on in this world without her. I'm so heartbroken.
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