after years struggling with a rare cancer, my mom passed peacefully in her sleep, among family just over an hour ago love you always
rip mom December 22, 1952 - December 25, 2011
For those who are curious, the cancer was leiomyosarcoma. It is a cancer of the involuntary muscle tissue, which basically means all the blood vessels, arteries, skin, intestines, etc.
LMS accounts for somewhere between 5 and 10% of soft tissue cancers. Soft tissue cancers account for about 0.7% of all cancers. More detailed information about LMS is available here
sorry for your loss Glad to hear she was able to stay with her loved ones till the end though, probably made it a lot easier for herself
Although it won´t be easy, I´m sure you´ll be okay with time (when it happened to my father, it took quite some time for me, but in the end its true what is said about time and wounds... )
Very sorry for your loss tofu, must be really difficult with Christmas and all. Hope you're hanging in there and full of great memories of the times you spent together, stay strong!
<3 tofu. My sincere condolences, I wouldn't even wish a long fight against cancer upon my worst enemy. May she now at least find rest without any more pain or suffering.
Don't really know what to say, but you made the blogpost here, even if it's short, to tell us or maybe just certain users of this forum about the news. What I do know is that I read your posts in the eve thread and saw you in eve a few times too, although we live in different timezones, and I think that I like you what I've seen from you so far and think that you're a nice guy, if I would know you more I would probably like you even more too, but I already know you enough to have felt honest sadness when I read your post. So even if I'm just one out of many here, I'd like to express my sincere condolences for you and my hopes that you find a good way to deal with your emotions about the death of your mother. My godmother, whom I've always been very close to, nearly died from uteruscancer 3 years ago and although I don't know how you feel now (probably not even nearly since it wasn't my mother), but I know how it feels not to know how the health of a close family member will be like in a few months/weeks.
"A song that seemed to come like a pale light behind a grey rain curtain, and growing stronger to turn the veil all to glass and silver, until at last it was rolled back, a far green country opened before him under a swift sunrise"
I hope she has found her white shores & rolling hills of green. Rest in peace.
I'm so sorry, man. You can always vent here. I know that seems little comfort, but it can be pretty cathartic. Take care of yourself and those around you these next few weeks.
I know that feeling, my dad died 5 years ago to a really rare disease (amyotrophic lateral sklerosis), it feels so bad that you cannot do anything about it.
Try to remember your mom in the good funny moments, where you had a good time and where she was healthy. That did help me.
Take good care of the rest of your family, it will make you feel all a little bit better, when you will be together.