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Topic: hope.
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oldie
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hope.
when my partner was diagnosed with a grade 4 brain tumor we were given zero hope. it was a year altogether before he died living with this terrible truth.
To me it was as if the lid of Pandoras box was opened and all there was in the world was awfulness.
It says in the myth that all that was left in the box after the lid was opened was "hope".
For a long time i couldnt even find that after such a dark dark time.
But what i have come to realise is that there is still hope for me, for all of us on this site,its just a matter of finding it anew, in different things than we originally had and somehow also finding peace after such a box has been opened.
Posted on 20/10/2011 at 09:02 |
Karen
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Re: hope.
My husband passed away from a glioblastoma too, thanks for you posting x
Posted on 20/10/2011 at 09:26 |
Hazel P
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Re: hope.
It was a year on 13/10/10 that my hon's scan result showed a probable tumour on his R temporal lobe,and exactly a year today 20/10/10 that our "Pandoras Box" was opened with the news that it was a GBM4 too. So I know exactly where you are coming from and good to know you have hope now. Hopefully soon for us relatively newbies .
Love to all xxxxxxx
Posted on 20/10/2011 at 11:51 |
Jules1
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My husband also died 10 months after a diagnosis of inoperable brain tumour. I have survived 7 years and am now in a new phase of my life with very much hope for the future.
Thanks for the post.
Love Jules1 xx
Posted on 20/10/2011 at 15:55 |
Andrea
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One thing I always say to myself is that I was given no hope. Tony died of heart failure in July 2009. From the moment I got to the hospital there was no hope.
Thank you for giving me the 'hope' that one day I too will have hope for myself again.
Andrea xxx
Posted on 20/10/2011 at 16:16 |
Jane d
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Sadly you are not alone, same diagnosis & outcome for us too.
X
Posted on 20/10/2011 at 23:22 |
Ruth
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Thanks for posting this. For many of us who are earlier in this journey the only hope we have is that you MWs further along the journey give us, even then it is hard to hold onto. Xxx
Posted on 21/10/2011 at 07:36 |
a'bel
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My husband also died of a brain tumour, for us it was 6 years after we found it. He was 33 when he died. That was two and a half years ago now & I do definitely have a lot of hope back although different from before and it doesn't take much for it to be knocked out of me! Still......it's there! xx
Posted on 21/10/2011 at 11:45 |
H
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Hi Oldie & others
Thank you very much for posting. I too lost my beloved partner to cancer and it is good to hear that there might eventually be a bit of hope in the mixture of things.
At 18 months that is definitely too early for me but having gone from devastation I occassionally experience some kind of 'neutral'... albeit for shorter periods of time - like a'bel this new balance can easily be disturbed but nonetheless I guess I have climbed a bit of the way up the hole. Always good to hear from someone who has made it further up.. :o)
H
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