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My Dad was diagnosed with leukemia in March 2018, he did chemotherapy and the cancer went away for a little bit but it came back stronger and faster which was a huge possibility but we were too slow and his body was very weak from his previous chemo...

I lost my grandma in April 2019 to multiple myleoma. She was 83 years old.

She was diagnosed with it in 2008, so she had it for a while. In addition to having cancer she also lost two of her sons...which were my own father and an uncle. The last eleven years of her life were very rough indeed. Growing up as a black girl in...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

I have lost a sister a couple of uncles a grandfather I'm sure there were other family members I don't remember or never knew the cause of there deaths, I knew a man since the start of ep and on to here when they closed down. His name was c...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My uncle passed away this early this morning at around 1:30. This makes the 2nd family member within months of each other to die of cancer. What is there to do? I just don't know anymore. A fresh wave of grief when the first has barely subsided....

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My mother died almost 18 months ago. I think losing her really did something to me. I don’t cope as well with problems as I did before. I used to be stronger and braver. Now it’s hard for me to imagine any good things happening in my future. Everyth...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

Grief seems to bring out your vulnerability and also a strong longing to be with people that you love. Something changed in me when my dad died; my tolerance for bullshit went down dramatically. I only wanted to be around genuine, real people and I f...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

Today is the one-year anniversary of my mom’s funeral. I feel worse today than I felt on the one-year anniversary of her actual death, which was last Tuesday.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My mum died when I was 12 & initially nothing really changed because the cancer had eaten her up before I reckon. It was when I hit puberty & she wasn’t around. My father was working all the time & my mums family disappeared after her fu...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

The recent losses of Aretha Franklin and Sen. John McCain brought it back to me again - that feeling of helplessness when my parents told me my mom’s cancer had reached stage 4. And that feeling of dread when they said she was stopping medical treatm...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

I recently lost my nana and its been really hard because we were so close. I love her so much and she always inspired me, I miss everything about her , I miss being able to talk to her and I miss her hugs and I miss reading her beautiful poems and sh...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

The closest person ever in my life, is the person i loved the most, my father is the one who died from Bowel Cancer. He died in 2010, he suffered for 5 years.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

Last week, I had a few days’ visit with my dad. It was the first time I’d seen him since my mom died last November. (We’ve been talking on the phone and emailing; just had not had an in-person visit till now.) We visited with some family members - i...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My grandpa is about to die... He has gotten two months at the most.. Happy Holidays.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

How do you cope with the overwhelming regret, emptiness, and sorrow that you feel when you loose your Best Friend? Specificly to cancer.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

This Christmas I have one less card to write. A name to miss from another card. There will be someone missing from the family gathering. But two others who we thought we might lose are with us and have recovered. There is hope in this season alon...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My whole lifetime as a child, I saw people come and go from my actual family's life. I lost my grandfather when I was 3 1/2 to pancreatic cancer. I lost my grandmother on my other side of the family to breast cancer by the time I was 4. And many...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

Rest In Peace 7/9/17 ❤️

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My great uncle died a couple days ago 😞 He was such a funny guy! He had the best sense of humor of anyone haha. He had some pretty amazing jokes as well lol. I didn't get to see him very much in the last few years, unfortunately

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

i have lost people i care about to cancer.i have lost my grandmother & my auntie

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My dad who I loved died from cancer when I was just 17 years old.He was really the best dad ever.He has such a sense of humor,was kind,loving.I really do miss him greatly.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

The scariest thing is when you have lost someone and they start to become a memory more then someone that was a real person once...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

His name was Danny Gomez. He was a hell of a guy. We worked together at a hardware store back when I was younger, before I decided that writing was something I could actually make money doing. He was a wise older gentleman but more importantly, he wa...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

Their absence becomes a part of who we are and for the longest time, it will be the thing that defines us. I am the girl who lost her mother....

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

Today is a day I always dread, you were one of my dearest dearest friends and I miss you so much. I miss your jokes, your teasing, but most of all your guidance. You gave the best advice and so often I think to myself "what would you tell me to ...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My dad would have been 88 today if he had survived his cancer. :( I miss him.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

I lost one of my best friends to colon cancer back in October 2000. The doctors said he had an ulcer and gave him some medication to help. It stopped but a year later the symptoms started again and it got to where he couldn't hold any meal down....

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My aunt died from lung cancer a few years back and she was probably one of the hardest things I had to go through but it's not something I want mourn about I would rather enjoy the memories that she gave me.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

He was only 29 years old. It's a damn shame.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

I lost my dad in 2014 due to colon cancer. While I still miss him every day, and always will, I have come to the point that I can remember the good times and am able to smile when I think of them and of my dad.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

it was a little more than 1 year ago...it was my piano teacher that taught me from 2004 until 2014 (he was in a bad health at that time and passed away after a year)...one time i had a dream with him, i was playing in a concert and i was just perfect...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

I never knew my dad, he was a sperm donor. I grew up with only my mother and countless partners she had. She had breast cancer when she died. When I finally did get a proper father figure, he was riddled with lymphoma. It ended up killing him about a...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

I never met her she was a friend of my family they told me she was really excited to meet me but two weeks before she got the chance she died but before she died my mum told her that she would give me her name as a middle name and i am honoured to ha...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

My dad passed away when I was 6 years old from lung cancer. I loved him very much and we were inseparable. Everywhere he went I was with him. Every Father's Day I go fishing because if he were still alive that's what we'd be doing.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

Today would have been my mother's 72nd birthday. In an odd way, I unintentionally celebrated her birthday today in baking a delicious vegan chocolate cake for a potluck with my friends. We ate lots of good food and had lots of laughter, and I am...

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

Its so strange, she was one year older, always knew more than me, acted like the older sister, you know? But she will forever stay 14 years old.

I Have Lost People I Love From Cancer

I've just got the news that my grandad hasn't got long to live as his brain tumour is spreading and his organs are failing. The fact the he is going to go scares me, I love him so much, even typing this makes me cry. My grandad was like a...

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