Taking a break

[Phys251]

I think Im going to take a break for awhile, not sure how long.
My mom has been diagnosed with leukemia and tomorrow I am taking a trip there to her. I will be frank, I will walk away from everything to care for her, my business, my SO etc. Right now Im unsure what comes next but Im driving there in a few hours.
She also has COPD snd emphysema so this will not be an easy journey

So sorry to hear. Best wishes for your mom and for you.

 

[PoS]

I think Im going to take a break for awhile, not sure how long.
My mom has been diagnosed with leukemia and tomorrow I am taking a trip there to her. I will be frank, I will walk away from everything to care for her, my business, my SO etc. Right now Im unsure what comes next but Im driving there in a few hours.
She also has COPD snd emphysema so this will not be an easy journey

Sorry to hear about this. I hope she gets better soon.

 

[LouC]

I think Im going to take a break for awhile, not sure how long.
My mom has been diagnosed with leukemia and tomorrow I am taking a trip there to her. I will be frank, I will walk away from everything to care for her, my business, my SO etc. Right now Im unsure what comes next but Im driving there in a few hours.
She also has COPD snd emphysema so this will not be an easy journey

 

[Helix]

I'm sorry that your mom is sick, and I hope that she recovers. We lost my wife's dad to a similar cancer, and we cared for him at the end. It was difficult and sad. I'm sorry that you're going through this.

 

[dobieg]

I think Im going to take a break for awhile, not sure how long.
My mom has been diagnosed with leukemia and tomorrow I am taking a trip there to her. I will be frank, I will walk away from everything to care for her, my business, my SO etc. Right now Im unsure what comes next but Im driving there in a few hours.
She also has COPD snd emphysema so this will not be an easy journey

Much respect for taking care of family and so sorry to hear the news. It will be a difficult time but spending time with family is always precious.

 

[beefheart]

I think Im going to take a break for awhile, not sure how long.
My mom has been diagnosed with leukemia and tomorrow I am taking a trip there to her. I will be frank, I will walk away from everything to care for her, my business, my SO etc. Right now Im unsure what comes next but Im driving there in a few hours.
She also has COPD snd emphysema so this will not be an easy journey

All my best to you ClaraD.

This place is too toxic, go take care of your mom. I hope for the best, you are doing the right thing!

 

[ClaraD]

I'm sorry that your mom is sick, and I hope that she recovers. We lost my wife's dad to a similar cancer, and we cared for him at the end. It was difficult and sad. I'm sorry that you're going through this.

Thank you Helix....at the moment she isn't very cooperative with taking it easy...but my kids are sort of involved now too...so, they are helping me. I understand her, though. My mother has always worked (as have I) she has never once stopped and just taken a break...so, she is not used to needing rest...however, her body is no longer cooperating with her desire to just push forward. She is starting to accept that she may not be good at driving anymore and just discussed giving me her Toyota Camry to go back and forth...but I told her let's leave it for if an emergency happens and anyone available can use it to get her somewhere. I have bought a Toyota Prius to get me back and forth. (trucks just use too much gas and she cannot get in and out of either of my trucks.) I don't like driving someone else's car(even if it is my mother's), because I would not want to damage or wreck a vehicle that is not mine...even if it is not my fault. She has another car her Hyundai Sonata too...but now both are sitting and I just get in every couple of days and start them so that they can warm up. She is now on oxygen 24/7 and that helps her. We sit on her porch and look at the trees across the road (she lives on a dirt road). I just enjoy talking to her about everything from the weather, politics to whatever else comes along the way...We don't talk much about her being sick. I don't want it to weigh on her mind. I thought I had found a house close to her, but it looks like a bidding war and I am not able to do that right now...so, we may go for some land, a 5th wheel or tiny and then build something small for us, so that we are much closer. For the meantime, my other half will be traveling back and forth and we won't be there full time until the girls get out of school in May.
Question, does anyone know if CBD is good for cancer or is it just mj? I cannot convince her to even consider it, but she might consider the CBD.

 

[ClaraD]

Sorry to hear about this. I hope she gets better soon.

I wish I could say that she will get better, but she is terminally ill. There is no treatment, just palliative care...she is in the sundown of her life, unfortunately.

 

[NewfieMom]

Hi, ClaraD. I read both the messages you posted within the past hour, but I do not really have a full enough understanding of your mother's situation to offer any useful information. I mentioned above that I saw both my parents through long illnesses. It is hard to believe how long ago my mother's was. She passed away in 2008 from C. Difficile, for which there is now a cure, after many months of trips between a nursing home and the hospital. My father visited her every day, making her delicacies with cucumber that he fed her. I moved up to Connecticut fro Virginia where my husband and house were, taking my teenage daughter with me. I stayed on and lived with my father, who was active but eventually got old. When he did, he eventually started to have falls (we had to take his car keys when he was about 94). I found I had to call 911 several times because he was injured and on the floor. I cared for my father alone until it became too much because my daughter had become mentally ill. One day I spent an entire day at a psychiatric hospital having her admitted then came home and had him fall because I was insufficiently vigilant when he was using a urinal standing up. That night he and I had to go to the ER. That is when we got a live-in aid to help with his care. The four of us: the aid, Derrick, my daughter, my father, and I lived together until my father's death.

I do not know what you face, but I hope that you call Hospice Care and find out what they and Palliative Care have to offer sooner rather than later. We were glad that we did. They were very sensitive and supportive.