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Coping with a loved one's cancer

Working and caring for mother with cancer

Hi all! Well here I am! After going over and over in my head about what I should do! My mother has been diagnosed with metastatic bowel cancer in August this year. She has moved interstate to live with us as she had not much support and the medical system in the ...Read More

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I don’t know how to talk about it

Hi, my my dad was just diagnosed with severe bowel cancer. It’s in his lymph nodes. 8 weeks ago he had no symptoms, no pain, nothing. Then all of a sudden 8 weeks later, he’s in the hospital at 3am because he can’t stand the pain and he’s planning his own funeral. ...Read More

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Lung and liver cancer????

Hi all, My Mother has just been diagonosed with Lung and Liver cancer. We don't know anyone who has gone through this type of cancer. Doctor's are saying the Lung is the primary cancer and liver secondary. My Mother is contining to work to distract her self whil...Read More

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Resentment

Hi all, I don’t know how to deal with this resentment I feel towards my partner. I feel like all I am here for is to care for him. And it is happiness that matters, I feel very miserable and selfish.

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Lung cancer and loss

My mum has lung cancer and se ondaries in 3 places. I am sick of people telling me "well, you’re at that age where parents will die" just because im 48, doesn’t make it any easier to live with!!!!

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What do I do now?

Hi everyone , my beautiful healthy vibrant mother had just got off her first ever cruise in October 2018. She was diagnosed with glioblastoma grade 4 brain cancer in November of the same year and everything just fell apart. My parents at the time lived 7 hours away...Read More

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Husband with lung cancer

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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My husband has lung cancer.

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 diagnosed with 3rd cancer diagnosis in 3 years

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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My Mum is dying

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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