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Hi. Im new to this online community forum. Please I am just looking for advice or information from those that maybe able to offer some thoughts or experiences. I have CUP mets in the bone diagnosed 2016, was given 6-12 months to live.

Have you or your loved ones had an experience with palliative care?

Hi my name is Colin,

I recently stopped working to take care of family members that were diagnosed with prostate and lung cancer. They have lost their appetites and their tastes have changed quite significantly.

Please help!

Ever since I was diagnosed with breast cancer, I keep hearing about the various cancer “journeys” that I and many others have supposedly embarked on. But this is certainly not the "holiday of a lifetime". Instead I feel (in my early sixties) like a small child who has been forced to start school and become educated, whether she likes it or not!

Saw Dipti (hematologist) today 3 weeks since last visit when she arranged urgent bloods - she then went away for 3 weeks. Upshot platelets are low as are lymphocytes. Dipti had ordered a PET scan at the end of July when I finished chemo and even though she had told Canberra Hospital 3 weeks ago that it was urgent as it was a possible recurrence I have still not heard from Canberra Hospital. 

Plan is chemotherapy once a week - started last Wednesday - I'm amazed that footdtuff already tastes metallic & my mouth sore thank goodness for paw paw ointment - it helps a great deal ! Have had 4 zaps of radiotherapy only 31 to go !!!