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More heartache for my kids

  • 17-07-2017 4:31pm
    #1
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭


    Hi, lost my dad last June following his battle with Cancer, that was hard on my children, he would come every Christmas and we'd go to him every Summer in the UK, so 2 normally happy times and he's really missed still.

    Last year, around same time as my dad died my mother in law had surgery for Ovarian cancer. Hard, but we'd hoped that might be it for a while, sadly few months later Liver metastatic disease showed up, now, after two failed chemo drugs, and a rapid increase in number of tumours, my mother in law has decided she probably doesn't want to try the last option chemo.

    She's a lovely lady, and my kids see her everyday before and after school and they stop with her at least once a week. I'm heartbroken for my wife, she's taking it all on as her sister and brother live abroad, but really worry what it'll do to my kids. They're 13, 11 and 9 and she means everything to them. It was hard when my dad went, it'll be ten times worse when their only granny dies (my mum died just before our first child was born).

    Don't know what I should say to them now, what I'll say when things progress or when her illness takes further hold and what I should or shouldn't say.

    Sorry, just an unburdening post. Bit lost with it all.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



Comments

  • #2
    Tom Mann Centuria
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    She didn't get home, I'll miss her a lot, she was a brilliant grandmother for my kids, and great mum to my wife. She had no time at all.

    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



  • #3
    Erik Shin
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,721 ✭✭✭Erik Shin


    Sorry for your loss Tom, look after your wife and your 3 wonderful children,


  • #4
    wiz569
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,709 ✭✭✭wiz569


    Tom Mann Centuria wrote: »
    She didn't get home, I'll miss her a lot, she was a brilliant grandmother for my kids, and great mum to my wife. She had no time at all.

    Sorry for your loss,may she RIP


  • #5
    hairyslug
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,596 ✭✭✭hairyslug


    I'm sorry for you loss, there's not much I can say but children can be wonderfully resilient when it comes to this. Look after your family.


  • #6
    Mambaman
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 ✭Mambaman


    Yeah sorry for your loss. From reading your post I can tell your kids have a loving farther and your wife a loving husband. Be strong for them and I hope you have no more bad news for a long time. Best of luck.


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  • #7
    9or10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 664 ✭✭✭9or10


    Sorry for your loss Tom.

    No wise words on what to say - just speak from the heart.

    All the best.


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