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Coping with a loved one's cancer
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 has just been diagnosed with metastic lung cancer, he also has leukemia. He is so angry and mean that he is pushing everyone away. I just don’tkniw How to cope. On occasion he gets manic. He is so stubborn about taking meds for his mood swings. He i...Read More
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It was diagnosed 8 months ago. At the same time we have great financial losses. He is very depressed everyday he sobs. He is on anti depressants but it doesn’t help. He is frightened and we spend hours dealing with his depression. I am doing everything to ke...Read More
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My mum was first diagnosed with bowel cancer in April 2016. It was easily diagnosed, successful surgery and chemo treatment. For 12 months she had good results but then in late 2018 cancer was found in a muscle near her stomach. This was harder to detect/diagnose a...Read More
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2 1/2 years ago my Mum was diagnosed with mesothelioma, so we knew from the start it was terminal cancer, knowledge which is both a blessing and a curse. Early this year they decided she had ran out of treatment options and was handed over to palative care. Having ...Read More
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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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