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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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I am Australian but my husband is Ukrainian. He is the only child and only surviving member of his mums family. She has just been diagnosed with Liver Cancer. She is also all the way in the Ukraine. It seems like it is secondary. I have also been retrenched and my ...Read More
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A couple of weeks ago my father wasn't even diagnosed!Since then he has had an awake craniotomy that removed a large portion of the tumour and is due to start radiation and chemo in coming weeks.I guess I am wanting to know how best to support him, and also my moth...Read More
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Hi there i have a beautiful amazing best friend who has just been given her second cancer diagnosis in 18months and I’m really struggling as to what I can do to help her. We don’t live close to each other so that makes it so much more difficult. this second cancer ...Read More
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my husband of 22 years was being treated for chronic sinusitis... for two years.. and the doctor up and retired without notice.. Thankfully ..I say this because if we hadn’t been forced to find a new doctor ...Read More
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Hello, I am deeply saddened to see howmany people are fighting this horrid disease. I am reaching out on this forum as my father was diagnosed with recurrent bowel cancer in 2017 which spread to his liver mid last year. Liver ablation was unsuccessful and resectio...Read More
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A good friend of mine in cork (I’m in dub) has been diagnosed with breast cancer. (I was just told over a week ago) tonight she told me the devastating news it’s spread to her pelvis and hips. She was a bridesmaid at my wedding but in that time we have grown apart ...Read More
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7 MONTHS AGO MY VIBRANT, BEAUTIFUL FULL OF LIFE 23 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER (NOW 24) WAS DIAGNOSED WITH A RARE FORM OF CANCER CALLED A EWING'S SARCOMA, WHICH WAS FOUND IN HER PELVIS AND AT THE TIME WAS BEING TREATED AS SCIATICA AS SHE HAD EXTREME LOWER BACK, leg and NERVE...Read More
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My husband has just been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer....well, not exactly diagnosed yet. 20 years ago he fought off non-hodgkins lymphoma - twice. Extensive bone marrow and radiation was carried out and it just seemed to 'disappear'. I have noticed physical c...Read More
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HelloHave been caring for a stoic brave soul for 5 1/2 years. He has stage 4 rectal cancer and has had most of the rectum removed. His cancer has spread to the liver and some lymph areas and he is still on fortnightly chemo because of this. And he still fights on....Read More
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Hello,I am in my 20s and I have quit my full time job to be a fulltime carer for my single mother who has terminal cancer. She has a prognosis of less then 1 year, I have moved back home to take care of her. At the moment I am struggling to adjust from being indepe...Read More
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