I Lost Someone I Loved to Cancer

But I never really thought about it until I started reading stories in this group. Family, friends and acquaintances. Some slow, some quick, some painful, some not. Loved ones? Most definitely in many cases. One case in particular that...

It's been more than a year since I lost my stepmother to uterine cancer.And I would be lying to you and to myself if I said losing her didn't hurt.Well,it does.A few minutes ago I added another member to my circle who had lost her...

For everyone to know ,

This women was very well known across Arizona . If you got the Arizona Republic in New River you sure knew her . She was the most lovely outgoing women that anyone had ever meet . She passed away August 21 , 201...

She's gone. It's the first thought that comes to mind when I wake up. It wasn't all a dream. She's really gone.

The last time that I saw my sister alive, her eyes were yellow with jaundice. Yet I showed only the same poker face I...

My phone just rang.
My Sister. My Dear sister Delyse...
She gave up the fight against cancer...

Rest in Peace, Sis!
I love You more, than anyone on this earth!
Nd You left your footprints in my heart. Forever...

First month----Oh we found something, need more tests but nothing to worry about.Second month---small tumor no worries radiation.Third month--complications from radiation,hair loss,vomiting,visible hardship on the body,Dr.'s say it's...

I just wanted to thank youThank you for being my favorite person in my Dad's familyThank you for believing in meThank you for being the first person ever in my country to carry me when I was a toddler, he waited for me at the airport (I...

I'll Carry You In My Heart
Why God takes the little ones
I would I'll never know
You had so much life to live
It just wasn't time to go.
For comfort, now, I think of you
With tiny little wings
Up above, in a beautiful place,
Listening...

I lost my Grandpa when I was only one years old, and I don't remember him at all.
But I lost someone else that was very close to me and that I loved to cancer, my aunt. She died when I was only 4years old. But I remember sitting with...

The sad part of it all is i didn't want you to go.... but i exept it for it was better for you
you had so much pain........
i could see all the suffering you've had.
you were so trust worthy you kept fighting till the day i told you,
I...

Back before I deleted my old account, I wrote a story about my friend, Will, having stage 4 Cancer. He kept being misdiagnosed until it was too late when they finally gave him the correct diagnosis. By the time doctors had discovered he...

I lost my "father figure" to bone cancer last Easter. The one year is coming up soon, and it's hard. There's not a day that doesn't go by when I don't wish he was still with us.
I still regret that day when I turned my cell off, just...

Emma died of neuroblastoma six years ago, aged seven.

Cancer stole her life and her happiness and replaced it with hair loss, pain, vomiting and chemo. Finally it took her life and left us with her death.

It stole my smiles. It stole...

I watched as my beautiful daughter went through chemo and radiotherapy and operations for neuroblastoma.

I watched her die and cuddled her and told her I loved her in her last moments.

She would be thirteen, I should be dealing with...

Was thinking today about my best friend, Sushi. This is an important day for her.
We were in High School together. I don’t remember how we met, exactly, but she was hard not to notice.  Standing over 6 feet tall, and built like a...

My dad was a single dad, and my hero. He was incredibly smart, and strong. He was loving, compassionate, funny and my very best friend. Losing him was the hardest thing I've ever gone through. I miss him every day, and I'm heartbroken...

A walking stick without it's owner, reading glasses with a fingerprint on their lense. Letters in that beautiful calligraphic handwriting, your face smiling at me in photographs. The buzz of relatives voices on the phone, the...

"Is that Wedgwood?", I heard a voice ask. I thought she was talking about the wooden rose, maybe wedge wood is some type of wood I've yet to hear about. Then I saw the pretty little blue pitcher. She would have loved that. It would have...

There is a beautiful road called

Remembrance,

Where loved ones meet.

I’ll take that road in thought today

To the one someday I’ll meet.

We watched you suffer day by day,

And could not help in any way.

But just stood by and...