Intro

[Colleen Muir]

My mom passed away 19 months ago from triple negative breast cancer which had spread to her lungs and brain. In the couple months before she passed, my parents' house had burnt down and in addition to losing the house and a lot of our "stuff", the hardest part was that my two cats succumbed to the smoke from the fire and passed away curled up with each other under my parents bed. I was away at school at the time and found out via phone call. We were so lucky my parents escaped relatively unharmed, but it meant that my mother spent her last months in a hotel room before moving to a hospice center. 

I'm here on grief hope because I'm struggling so much with her death and the events leading up to it. (Which will be discussed in their own post(s). ) I'm getting married in 2.5 weeks (yay!) and even though my mom and I knew and planned for her to not be there, there are some things a girl needs and wants her mother there for.

Thanks to all here for providing a safe place for me and others to grieve.