What and why a blog on the journey my family is taking

This blog is dedicated to my Mum, to her as a mother, a woman who worked throughout her life,  brought up five children often close to poverty, lived within a challenging marriage and until now has battled four major illnesses before this last challenge, one we found out yesterday will be her last. I want to use this blog to record these last weeks, how our family faces this and hopefully how we move forward from the death of the central mother figure in all of our lives.  For some, this may be a strange or even uncomfortable topic and they may wonder why I would write about such a personal topic, however, I feel like charting the journey we are on might give insight to others and truthfully I hope that it will also be an opportunity to gain some kind of meaning myself.

I am still in shock over what has happened despite an underlying suspicion based on Mum’s medical history. I can’t understate her bravery as she has faced cancer 3 times already with the current resurgence of her second cancer being metastasized into her liver. Yesterday she made the choice in a family meeting to stop her treatments and to enjoy the time she has left. This is not expected to be very long although I hope that we might have one last Christmas together.

 

 

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