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How do you or did you cope with a loved one’s diagnosis? What are your needs during this difficult time? What happens when your role moves from partner or friend to carer? Find out how others cope or share your experiences.
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My husband had Whipple Surgery Apri 1, 2019 horrible pain difficulty with eating lots of gas and frustration. We need support encouragement and hope as we enter int chemo in June.
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Hi all, my mum found out she has liver & colon cancer Feb 2017. She also had neuroendocrine cancer. Since then she has had 3 round of chemo and 2 surgeries to remove the cancer. A month ago she was told there were not any traces of cancer but when recovering from s...Read More
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Himy dad has stage 3B lung cancer. We found out last March and he had been getting treatment throughout that time. I thought I was doing well with coping with this but as of late, my dad has been getting progressively worse and we have found out today that his tumo...Read More
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Hi there, my fiance aged 31 was recently just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer - this has come out of no where, and started out with some tummy pain and constipation just a few weeks earlier.The tumor started in his colon, which has spread to his liver and some surrou...Read More
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Hi there. On 15th March this year, my wife of 41 years (she's 68 and I'm 66) had a pancreatic cancer diagnosis with metastates in the liver confirmed. A complete shock as there is no family history on her side of any form of cancer. She has been told it is inopera...Read More
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Hi I just found out that my father has been diagnosed with cancer of the esophegus. My father is 87 years old. I live in a different country, so the caretake that regularly takes him for his doctor appointments accompanied him to the doctor for the diagnosis. As i...Read More
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She had her left kidney removed in November, but it spread to her lymph nodes. The doctor told her that it was gone. She kept having pains in her stomach after she got out of the hospital. She went back to the emergency room last week and just got out. Today at the...Read More
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I posted on this site about 2 months ago as carer for my father who is also my best mate.unfortunately he passed away yesterday morning after fighting this disease with everything he had. I now have the struggle of trying to live my life without the person who was ...Read More
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Hugs to all of youwonderful people. My stepson has stage 4 bowel cancer. Diagnosed in July last year he is now up his 15th round of chemo. At his 12th his scans showed some had shrunk a little and the primary had stayed the same. He has been managing physically ver...Read More
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Hi, new here & cant find anything close to what we're going through....I am an apodted niece (41yr old) to the greatest uncle 1 could imagine. He made life livable for awhile in an adoption gone horribly wrong. A spot was found on his lung Feb 2017. He either didn'...Read More
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