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drumstick diva said:
Meg so very, very sorry. Mothers are the glue that hold families together.So very tragic especially to loose her at such an early age. :hit

My mom's older brother died of pancreatic cancer. A great friend of mine died of the same at 59. Was told 6 mos. - only made it to 3.
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Thank you, DD. Ain't that the truth. She was the only one that talked to everyone. I guess I need to step up, there.

I'm amazed at how many people I've found that have been touched by pancreatic cancer. It is such an unforgiving disease. They gave ma 6 months to two years.
 
Meg-in-MT said:
Hey everyone, thanks for checking in Debby.

Been a rough go around here lately. My mom was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer on Oct. 13, 2018. I've been trying to get her to come back since then, and far before that. She had a bit of an independent and stubborn streak, that lady :) But she decided she was going to make the move. They ended up having to turn around about an hour outside of Portland and head back to OHSU, where she remained for about 5 days.

Finally got my mama home and settled in after the week journey from Coos Bay to here. She told us when she got here that the doctors in Portland had given her two weeks, based on her latest scans. We got to spend four precious but horribly short days with her, before she passed away on Saturday, June 1st. She was 54 years young.

I've never known a loss of this magnitude. I'm just trying to figure out a new normal without her...
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I'm so sorry you lost your mom. She was still a young lady. I'll be keeping you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. Back a couple of years ago byc member JaeG posted a poem on this thread that I found very touching. If I'm not mistaken she is the author.

If I be the first of us to die,
Let grief not blacken long your sky.
Be bold yet modest in your grieving.
There is a change but not a leaving.
For just as death is part of life,
The dead live on forever in the living.
And all the gathered riches of our journey,
The moments shared, the mysteries explored,
The steady layering of intimacy stored,
The things that made us laugh or weep or sing,
The joy of sunlit snow or first unfurling of the spring,
The wordless language of look and touch,
The knowing,
Each giving and each taking,
These are not flowers that fade,
Nor trees that fall and crumble,
Nor are they stone,
For even stone cannot the wind and rain withstand
And mighty mountain peaks in time reduce to sand.
What we were, we are.
What we had, we have.
A conjoined past imperishably present.
So when you walk the woods where once we walked together
And scan in vain the dappled bank beside you for my shadow,
Or pause where we always did upon the hill to gaze across the land,
And spotting something, reach by habit for my hand,
And finding none, feel sorrow start to steal upon you,
Be still.
Close your eyes.
Breathe.
Listen for my footfall in your heart.
I am not gone but merely walk within you
 

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