Coping with the loss of a mother

It is always hard when you lose someone you love. Your world becomes sad and a bit dark, you feel regret and ask yourself what you can do to get out of the sea of feelings that washes over you.

When you lose your mother, though..things are different. Your world is not just a bit dark, it is pointless. The amount of pain that you feel isn’t like anything else you ever felt before. You are confused, angry, frustrated — you just don’t know how life can move forward if she is not around.

I lost my mother 7 days ago. She had a stroke that could not be reversed and after 2 weeks in the hospital, she lost the battle.

Let me tell you a few things about my mother. She was a fighter in every way you could think of. At 36 years old she was diagnosed with leukemia, and she managed to beat that. A few years after that, she had a stroke. She overcame that one as well. Not long after, she was diagnosed with cancer, and what do you know? She survived that illness as well. If you think this was her last obstacle..you are wrong. Last year, on the 15th of May, she had an ischemic attack — a blood cloth blocked a major artery in her leg which led to an amputation. She was septic, in a great deal of pain — and she survived that as well.

This year, she was finally making progress with the prosthetic leg. Her life was hard, but…