• LoganNineFingers@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    4 years ago next week marks my mom’s diagnosis and the 10 months that followed. Watching your loved ones go slowly insane and become unable to speak and move in such a short time (she was mid 50s) when they should be healthy changes you. Everything I look at, everything I think about is now looked at under a different lense. And given my age, there just aren’t a lot of people around me who have any idea what it’s like and assume it’s just handling the pain.

    Like… no. I’m different now.

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      8 months ago

      Sorry you had to go through that. I hope you’ve been able to use that experience to make the most of life.

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      8 months ago

      Luckily I have a good therapist.

      Who lost his sister to it.

      Doesn’t help that my brother also died of a heroin overdose (just 5 months before diagnosis ).

      My mom moved away after Dad died to live near her sister… Which I understand. But dam I feel abandoned.

      Also sometime in between I got a fibromyalgia diagnosis. So in also grieving my old life/body. Bleh. Hugs 🫂

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        8 months ago

        Damn you’ve had it hard. I hope you find some joy in life, you deserve it.