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I have not actually read the book yet,. I am dying to but worried that it will just upset me ,.. dont know if that sounds stupid. My mum died almost 2 years ago - april 1st 2007 when she was just 44 years old. She was diagnosed with kidney cancer in december and died 4 months later. the hardest thing to deal with i think is to think of everything we are missing out on -that i wont get the experience of getting to my mum as an adult - that my children will never meet her etc... im sure the usual feelings of someone who looses their parent at a young age.
During my mum's illness she showed me how to be strong and be positive and she will always be an inspiration to me. I miss her everyday and im sure i will do for the rest of my life. I am looking forward to reading the book and will comment again when i do. Miss you mum,xxx
Posted on 29.01.09 by
Anonymous
My mum died in 2003, she was only 56. She needed a heart and lung transplant, but was too ill to receive it. I am one of four sisters. As this book is about a woman who knew she was dying and had left notes - It was a must read for me.
My mother left letters for us, and also a letter of which give us every instructions of how her funeral was to be carried out.
The book made me laugh and cry and since she has died we also have discovered secrets about our family.
There is a part in the book,it is in the last entry of the mothers journal that has given me great strength to deal with my mothers death - it is the part that she tells her daughters that love never dies and lives on and helps you cope with what life throws at you.
Posted on 28.01.09 by
Anonymous
My mother has been dead for 8 years and there is still not one day that I donot think of her, not always with sadness but always with a bitter sweetness. I am haunted by the last week of her life, spent in a hospital room, watching her give up the battle she had waged for 12 months exactly. Early in that week she glanced to me with eyes that needed to register which of her 4 daughters was sitting beside her. "It's you" she said then looked behind me as if searching for someone else. "Whose looking after the children". "the children have their father" I assured her. I needed to be there with my dying mother. At that statement I saw something shift in her expression. "Yes "she said to me quitely," the children have their father" For me it appeared that this was the moment she decided she could no longer continue the battle. It was confirmed not long after when she begged the doctor not to listen to what her children want but to listen to what she wants, that she had had enough and it was time to go. I would love to tell her now that it has been nearly 10 years, yes mother we have our father but it will never be like having our mother. I cannot share with him the emotions of being a mother and know that he understands, and he cannot be the golden thread that ran through the family keeping us together, the way that you were. So often now when I hear women of my age complain about their mothers I feel like saying cherish her while you have her, beacuse you will miss her when she is gone, and even though the grief dissipates the vacantr place in your life does not get smaller.
Posted on 28.01.09 by
Anonymous
I love this book so much and the fact that it has this website so you can add your own little story. I lost my mother to cancer just over 3 years ago at the young ago of 57yrs and I miss her more than ever. We had our ups and downs as all mother and daughters do but she really was simply the best. She spent her last two weeks in hospital and we thought she would come home but after fighting the cancer for over 6 years it just got too much for her and she lost the battle on the 1st of December 2006 the time of year she loved the most. The night before she died she called me to ask how I was, know matter how sick she was she just never stopped worrying about us. Her last words to me were I love you, and although I said the same back I wish I had said it so many more times to her. If I had that time over again I'd tell her every day. so just for the record "I love you so much Mam" xxx
Posted on 28.01.09 by
andie71
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