Thread: When your mums gone.

^ a long way off, thank gd ( fingers xrossed)
didnt read past the 1st sentence ,
making the most while i have it!!

Thats what i thought. She's still young in my eyes.

I lost my Mom to Cancer at 24, she was only 48. I had 5 months of the 6 months the Docs gave her to live to come to terms with it.
I've lost 2 brothers also, but none hurt worse than when she left. First time I saw my Dad cry ever too. It gets easier, time is a great healer.
As we get older , the more we see mortality around us.

Anyway on a brighter note, my Mom was always there any time of day, night or morning if i needed someone to talk to, or picking up with no money drunk and bloodied outside a nightclub out of town or getting back from the Police Station

She was the best cook, confidante, best friend, great judge of my girlfriends too and a great woman, the like I've never found in any other woman.

Take care of your Mom, it's true you have only one

Yep, Moms are great!

For me it's a case of doing all the things with my soon to be daughter, that my mum and dad should have done for me. So no great love lost.

Families can be your worst enemy at times, especially where there's money involved!

Mine's cool. She's a complete pain in the arse, but she's all I've got left after losing Dad when I was young. Not seen her for a few years but she's supposed to be coming over in the New Year for a month, so expect a bald, haggard MtD to be around come March.

Mine used to wrap my sandwiches up in a road map, think she was trying to tell me something

Nice reminder Princey.

I'm going to call my mum right now.

My Mum's here at the moment. Nothing is forever, and I intend to make the best of her while she lasts. Every visit, well you never really know if there will be a next one, so I'm grateful. She's doing great incidentally .

Dad appears to have accepted that his international travelling days are over, sadly- so I guess I'll just have to go and visit him in ole' Blighty while I still can. Nothing else would get me to go there, so it will likely be my own last visit there. Something else to make the best of, while it lasts.

My mums the greatest woman I know. She would still be great even if I didn't know her.
Always there to help, not only myself and my sister but all our nephews and nieces and countless friends of ours she has given a free room when they were down on their luck

Example , at her local church , when the vicar asked the sizeable and wealthy congregation if anyone had a spare room for a scholership student from Africa, my mother was the only one to put up her hand and help out. How many times she has done this I can't count but her philosphy is that as she says she's a Christian she should act accordingly and not just put church time in.

She's coming up to 80 soon but as fit as fiddle and I hope she long remains so. I'd be up shit creek without her.

One day when I was around 10 years old I ate fok out of a water Mellon at some little Bints birthday party being the little pig I was.

Anyway Woke up around ten PM and proceeded to deposit said water mellon all over the wall, the bed and my self.

What a dead set foking horrible mess it was and I'm still disturbed by it to this day but I love sharing my story with all you fine readers on Teak Door.

My Mummy was well pissed when confronted with a scene that would do " Jack the Ripper " proud especially considering it was self imposed.

Anyway, mum bunged me in the shower to clean all the shit off, changed the bedding and back to sleep I went.

Love ya Mum. You where a cool bird.

Too bad the big man came calling at 60. What a friggin disaster that was.

Anyway, the suns shinning again and I'm off to look at the smoking hot trollups on Kuta beach.

Life's good when ya breathing.

I lost my Mum 2 years ago, it sucks especially as I then lost my Dad almost a year to the day later.

We spoke on the phone at least 3 times a week with SMS's etc in between.

When nice things happen now it's sad that I can't tell them any more, the kids doing well in school, the recent trip to Oz etc....

Luckily I was in my 40's when it all happened....

My mom came to visit me twice here and had the time of her life. I normally went home the first week of Janurary to visit here. On Christmas day 1991 I called her and we spent an hour chatting, she had colon cancer but it was in remission and under control. We spoke for a long time and I informed her my wife and I were going to Phuket on the 28th for the New Year, and I would call her on the 3rd of January to let her know what time my domestic flight would be getting into her town.

We got back the night of the 2nd and the red light on my answer phone was blinking. It was my cousin who she lived with " Your mom had a major heart attack on the 30th, but lived until the 1st all the while crying for you"

I have to live with that the rest of my life, still think about it at least once a week. Damn.

Lost my dad the day I turned 30 and my mom and I had grown closer than we had ever been. I love ya mom.

Aww shucks I'll call her this weekend love her to bits

Both my mother and father are still around. I make my yearly trip to visit since they don't travel well.

Mom has Alzheimer's now and is changing from a sweet, forgetful mom to an angry, hateful person I don't know anymore. It is painful to witness what is happening to her.

At least she has, of late, become aware of the personality and memory problems the rest of the family has been seeing for about three years now and is starting the medication prescribed to her.

I'm hoping an improvement comes for I can hardly bare to be around her.

It must be heart wrenching, for both the sufferer and those that love that person, to live with and be witness to the downward spiral of Alzheimers. My condolences kitty.

That reminds me I better get a letter off this weekend

I keep in touch with my Mum and Dad weekly. Last time I was in the UK, my missus finally got them up and running with Skype as well, as she has a lot more patience than me.

They're both in their 70's now but still reasonably fit and well, even though my Dad has a very mild prostate cancer..
Looking forward to them visiting us in November. Hopefully, they might stay over Christmas & New Year with us as well.
They have been such wonderful parents for as long as I can remember. Even when I was being a less than wonderful son. I feel very lucky when I think about them, and just hoping that I can be half as good a parent to my boy down the line..

Originally Posted by The Fresh Prince

There must be a few members here who have lost their mum. I'm wondering how it feels?

Shitty!

Haven't spoke to my mum in years, neither has anyone else in my family from what I gather. She won't be missed.