So it was a massive shock and completely devastating, but there was also an element of I need to do my GCSEs and that was what mum would have wanted me to do, so I need to crack on. I think I was quite self-centred in the way that teenagers just are. I feel like in some ways I coped better at 15, in terms of resilience and just getting one with life, than I would have coped if it happened to me now. I’ve had better Christmases, it has to be said. There was a brief period of remission and then it came back. It was something she had had for quite a lot of my childhood, first diagnosed when I was in about Year 5 so I don’t know what that would make me, about 9 or 10 maybe. I lost my mum to breast cancer when I was 15. You can listen to the whole podcast here: This is an extract of her conversation with Mark Lemon on his podcast Grief is my Superpower about the death of her mum and how it has shaped her outlook on life. Sarah Turner, aka The Unmumsy Mum, was a teenager when her mum died of cancer.
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