Comments on: When your parent gets a terminal diagnosis

By: JP

JP — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 14:05:30 +0000

My father will be 60 this November of 2008, a little over a year ago he was diagnosed with FTD. Everyday he shows more and more signs of this disease. It is very hard on my mom, my sister and I. I have had strange feelings that I have never felt before. Just knowing what is going to happen in the near future is driving me crazy. I try to keep my senses about me and go on everyday and try to be there for my mother. But just knowing the suffering he is going through and how much worse its going to get for him, I feel for him so much. His mother passed away in the middle of the night right after his step father passed away. When he was a child he lost his brother and just recently lost his baby sister to breast cancer in her 40’s. His only remaining family is his healthy older sister and his father whom is reaching about 92 years old. Just thinking about everything he has gone through in life and now this…its very hard for me, my sister, my mother and most of all him. I just pray that God will be there for my family and everyone who is going through the same worries and rough times.

By: A parent’s illness

A parent’s illness — Sun, 18 May 2008 05:19:23 +0000

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By: JayMonster

JayMonster — Wed, 07 May 2008 17:48:03 +0000

Thanks for the reminder. As it turns out, this has not gotten much easier (parent or other loved one) when you go through it more than once, and you start getting that alone feeling all over again.

By: Trisha

Trisha — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:22:24 +0000

I never “got it” until it happened to me. Now I understand.

By: newscoma

newscoma — Sun, 04 May 2008 03:16:00 +0000

You know, when I heard my mother’s terminal diagnosis, I thought I was the most alone person in the world.
But I realized I wasn’t. It took time but as the finals days of her journey on this planet played out, I found that there was so many people that had empathy were everywhere. So many of us go through this. And it does get better than that moment when you hear those words “terminal.”
And, you are right as is he, we are not by ourselves in this.
Great Post.