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mummylin2495 · 15/01/2015 23:29

Well here we are again, yet another thread. I am worried about the big tree by my mums grave. I would be horrified if mums stone was smashed, and my sisters too come to that as they are side by side.

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NewnessMoo · 28/03/2015 19:41

Can I come in?

supermariossister · 28/03/2015 19:46

No need to knock here, always open Thanks

how is everyone doing?

NewnessMoo · 28/03/2015 19:58

Lost my parents six years ago, but really need them now for many reasons! Where are they?? Lost! Sad

Love to you all here x

ssd · 28/03/2015 20:12

its like having all your roots pulled up when you have no parents here anymore

NewnessMoo · 28/03/2015 20:36

Not ok with it at all sometimes! Other times I recognise it as inevitable!

I wonder if their spirits are alive somewhere?

ssd · 28/03/2015 20:46

I believe they are, I think love lives on, you just cant see them now, they've gone somewhere else, but their love for you lives on.

NewnessMoo · 28/03/2015 20:50

I hope so, I kind of need to know they see my struggle and are rooting for me! Will do it for them IYSWIM?

ssd · 28/03/2015 21:08

they will be cheering you on from where they are xx

NewnessMoo · 28/03/2015 21:36

Thank you ssd

ssd · 28/03/2015 22:11

xx

ssd · 30/03/2015 16:53

how are you feeling now mummylin, hope you're starting to improve!

sorry supermario, I didnt answer you before, yes am doing ok, horrible weather here today and was actually snowing this morning!! the sun doesnt stay for long up here!! hows things with the family, has your mums dh been in touch yet? x

supermariossister · 30/03/2015 22:55

The weather is terrible isn't it its done nothing but rain here and due to do the same all week. mums dh answered my gappy birthday text to say he had been busy nothing else really just got to accept it. family wise things are alright how about you? Looking forward to the easter break Thanks

Mouseface · 31/03/2015 00:27

Hello.

I'm dreadfully sorry that I've not been around or supportive for you lovely people...... but I really need to get this out and NOW!! It's selfish and mean of me and I'm

I hate Mother's Day. I can not cope with it. My sister has always been the 'needy' one of the family. My real blood sister that is and do you know what? I don't give a monkey's shit if she reads this. I've had it. Enough. E.N.UFF!

On September 28th 2005 we lost our triplets, Charlie, George and Harry. We weren't expecting to be pregnant, never mind triplets as there are no multiples in the family.

Anyway, that also happens to be my sister's Birthday.

She got married a year later for her 30th, which was on 28/09/06, exactly a year from when we lost our boys at 16+5 weeks. She decided to announce to a select few (sat around a table that day) that she was expecting her 4th baby to another feckless tw@t. I felt sorry for her I guess, always chasing the happy ever after, we all want that I guess.....?

No remembrance of her nephews, no recognition, no thought at all..... she really, really fucked me off. I'm sorry. That sounds hateful but recent events have finely lead me to this end.

Some of you might know that it was my 40th not that long ago, I didn't want her and her brood of children going through my house, playing with my SN/LD toys, not asking, not in control of her, her children or anything.

So I said that she could come as long as it was the pub only and not back to the house. The party was amazing, full of surprise guests that my husband had spent hours and hours arranging, checking who was free, I saw my best friends, the last people I thought I'd see..... but the day simply perfect!

Anywho, my sister couldn't make it because her eldest son broke part of his leg, which could be Karma, or it could be me being an absolute bitch. I'm not normally that person but I think that she is no longer talking to me.

I asked how he was after trying to call via text - no reply. I told her all about Nemo's big sponsored read, would she please like to support him? Nothing. I tell her he won the prize for raising the most money, nothing.

Not seen or heard from her at all since just before my big party.

Anyway. She gets to go to the crem where Mum is all the time. She asks Dad to take her and they go together, all of the time but my Dad lies to stop me hurting.

I hurt. SO MUCH! I want her back, my mum. I really do need her and all I can think about is that my sister can go to their house, be a part of my Dad's life every weekend. I can't. We moved away and Mum told me that she'd never forgive me for taking her family away......

I never knew that just 5/6 years later, she'd be telling me again as I held her in my arms as she died. I never knew that she would still hurt so much, so deep that we'd moved just over an hour away.

Last weekend, I fractured my arm. I would normally call her and she'd ask how she could help. She's not there to call. She's not there. Gone.

My Dad's trying so, so very hard to rebuild his own life, find some sort of normally, some sort of level playing field where he won't fall into a black hole. I love my Dad so much. I really, honestly do and he knows that my sister and I aren't talking but she's not got the balls to say it herself and tell me what the actual problem is.

We're adults but she's just well...odd, distant and doesn't want anything to do the things that go on in my life, anymore. There was like this big bevide when I left, became more independent and got married etc, even though I tried to include her in the planning, she did my hen night.

I know that my Mum would be upset but I can't help it if I don't want her children running ransack around Nemo's things when his SN/LD just wouldn't get it.

It's taken nearly 5 years for him to get to where he is now with family events.

She was more than welcome to come to the pub, just like everyone else, then they all went home. The only people that came back were my DH's parents to collect things..... then that was it. So WTF is her problem?

Actually, I don't care. Now that I've let all of that out, I don't care. She never asks after us, even if I do after her. I'm not putting my Dad in the middle anymore. Fuck it. Life's too short and I want my Mum. Mother's day is shit and she loves that she can go to the crem when ever she frickin wants.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

I really, really, want my Mum back and her not to know that this is how her two blood daughters have turned out.

I'm so far away from her grave. From where my darling mum lies in peace. I hope that she can't feel this. I'm sure that she can. I can almost feel her here, getting wound up with us, me.

Do I try and call her?

My sister? I've asked my Dad and he just say's, yeah, I know, 'ah ha,' 'hmm'

I wish my Mum was here so that she could take the head of the family back. I don't want to be head of the family, I want to be safe and for her - Mum - to know that we all love her and miss her so so so much. ~~

I can't cope with this.

And, to add to things, I've broken my wrist. It's really hard work.

Sad Sad Sad

Sorry to just land and blab all of this out. I need to go to bed as I can't type anymore with the pain.

Goodnight lovely people. Sorry xxx

chickennoodle · 31/03/2015 09:24

Hi mouseface, I'm sorry you're going through all of that with your sister. On a practical level, have you got painkillers to help with the pain? Have you considered counselling to help talk through all the feelings you've got going on? I've had sister issues (counselling helped me) and I'm in pain too, so I know how it can all get you down x

Mouseface · 31/03/2015 17:53

Hey chickennoodle

Thanks for answering, i best most people have hidden my HUGE rant!!

I think mum dying has actually allowed this particular dragon to rear it's ugly head if I'm honest. It's a trigger. I do need counselling, you're right.

I'm on loads of pain relief, but I'm sorry to read that you are in pain too sweetheart...

Thank you for caring :)

I'm a bit calmer today.... x

Truckingalong · 31/03/2015 19:52

Glad to hear that you're feeling a bit calmer Mouse. It's so draining to feel that much anger and sadness. You are coping with so much right now. Letting it all out and having a right good rant is so cathartic!!!

myrtleWilson · 31/03/2015 19:58

Ah Mouse, not sure I can add anything useful, but thinking of you and hope you find some resolution. We had mom's funeral on Friday and it was as lovely as it could have been but in some ways I'm noticing/re-realising she's gone more since then than before. I presume this is all normal....?

candykane25 · 31/03/2015 22:26

Hi myrtle I am six months in to my dad dying and I think it's taken this long to really really understand he has gone.
Mouse I am glad you got things off your chest. I have a sister who I love dearly but no one can rile me as much as she can. I think it's hard to process when a sibling has a different value system to yourself, especially if you grew up in the same house with the same parents. And losing a family member can mean family dynamics get shifted and can take a while to resettle.

mumslife · 01/04/2015 08:39

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Truckingalong · 01/04/2015 19:44

I went to a nursing home tonight for something totally unrelated and a frail old grey haired lady looked straight at me and said hello. I just fell apart and collapsed in a heap of tears. Jesus, I'd give anything......

ssd · 02/04/2015 09:20

trucking, I know the feeling well, I only have to see a middle aged woman pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair and I'm gone.

hi mouse, nice to see you again, and sympathies about your sister....I could write a book on sisters and never finish it...chickennoodle, would you mind telling me about the counselling you had, I would be very interested in that myself, pm me if you dont want to chat here...

mummylin, where are you?!? we miss you Thanks

and super, hope you enjoy Easter break with the kids and we get some decent weather!!

and to badvoc, t875, biscuits, and everyone here, thoughts are with you all xxx

chickennoodle · 02/04/2015 12:02

Ssd, what exactly do you want to know? I'm happy to talk on here or by pm xx

mummylin2495 · 02/04/2015 12:33

heard your call ssd ! I am a lot better than I was and have just started pottering around the house. I'm not sure really what I have had. It has been a very scary time and I did think I would end up in hospital.But after the doc decided not to give me any anti biotics, just steroids and I made no improvement, he changed his mind, so had a course of them which I finished this week. I know it has not gone completely so managed to get a telephone apt and have now got another course of anti b,s to take.
I have not been able to see my own doctor and so saw one of the new docs and then had the telephone apt with yet another doc who I don't know. I know when your ill it dosent really matter who you see, but it seems unless you make an apt two weeks in advance you will never get to see your own doc who I trust and have had for years.
I have been worried about my heart racing too, but the new doc said it sounds ok to him. Where I have been struggling to breath, it has made my heart race.
Anyway I am now on the mend , think it was some kind of phneumonia and it completely wiped me out and for the first time I missed going to the crem to take new flowers. I am still feeling very weak but I am going to get myself a tonic and get myself back to normal.anyway that's the story. I will have to read back and catch up on everything. Thanks ssd for thinking of me x

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ssd · 02/04/2015 19:12

am glad you are on the mend now mummylin, we've missed you on here! It sounds like you've had quite a time of it, its awful how hard it is just to see your own doctor these days, when they ask at my surgery who is my doctor I say I dont know!! My regular one retired and now its pot luck who I get, although most of them are young and really nice so I dont mind. Just make sure you take it easy and have dh waiting on you Grin

chicken, I just wondered if your counselling involved you and your sister being complete opposites and how you dealt with this? what candycane said about having a different value system as your sister really struck a chord with me, I just wondered in counselling helped you come to terms with this or if it wasnt related to this at all.

Sparkygal · 03/04/2015 07:08

Well that's 4 months today since I lost my lovely mum. Feel I am doing ok generally but woke up this morning and it hits again.
I miss her so so much Hmm