Thank you all for your wonderful advice.

This is difficult for me but much more difficult for my mother. I have to get over it and just go. She lives 10 minutes from my house, there really is no excuse. I have talked to my sisters and they have agreed to go over there with me. I have been assured by my therapist that each time I go it will make it easier for the next. The hardest part I think for me is watching her suffer!

I am definitely being proactive. I havent holed up in my bedroom, I am taking medication and talking to a therapist. I am trying to assure that I am doing everything humanly possible to get over my fear so that I can be there for my mom.


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Mom 48 diagnosed Sep 08 Stage IV SCC
full glossectomy, neck dissection traech and peg Nov 08
35 radiation treatments and 3 chemo
Mar 09 mets to lungs
Started Erbitux 3/09/09
06/26/09 mets to rib
Stopped Erbitux 6/26/09
Start erbitux/taxol 7/06/09
Started Hospice 7/24/09
Passed away 8/09/09