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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 Father in law who is 92 has just been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer and is declining quite quickly. My aged mother-in-law seems to be in slight denial and some of the family INCLUDING my father-in-law think it would be better shielding her from the severi...Read More
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Hi all,
Just intoducing myself...where to start....
I've held off joining any of these groups since my "family" was diagnosed in 2008...i say family because even though the disease only targets one members body, it effects everyone and everything close to them....Read More
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13 months after my husband dropped the bottle that led to his GBM diagnosis, the end is near.
I'm currently lying in bed beside him enjoying our remaining time together. His decline has been rapid yet dignified. Equipment was brought to our home on Friday and alr...Read More
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Ive been searching the internet for the past two nights looking for support groups for you young widows with children. Having no luck what so ever. Even tried good old facebook!
I lost my partner in May 2011 and we have 3 children.
We have done the councelling...Read More
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My mum is now 81 and has moderate/severe dementia. In 2009 she had a complete hysterectomy to remove a growth that turned out to be a Grade 2, Stage 2 carcinoma. She refused further treatment.
Last July she had an MRI which showed that she had a new pelvic m...Read More
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I live in Melbourne and my Dad lives in Auckland NZ and has hormone resistant prostate cancer. He's had chemo, radiation therapy (it's spread to his bones) and is about to start the drug Zitega in two weeks. He's not going to get better, we just don'...Read More
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This year has been hard enough after my Dad was diagnosed with a brain tumour, having surgery and everything else that has gone on in between. We have received limited support from extended family who have called once or twice and rarely respond to text messages, h...Read More
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to find ways to stay focussed and remain positive. staying on top of kids daily issues. telling ones partner that live is wonderful and living daily without big plans.
reassuring kids that i will allways be there, as in the dad. also trying to remain strong, do not...Read More
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Hi all,
Myself and another woman have started a facebook group called NSW Widows.
I am a member of another group on facebook that has members from the USA, UK, Europe and also Australia. Some of them meet up and have a blast.
We are trying to get something simila...Read More
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Hi everyone,
Im new to this forum as are the other new posters I guess.
My Dad is currently at the end of his life but I have no idea how long he has to go.
It's horrific watching him die.
He had melanoma removed from his head in 2011. It was not taken very se...Read More
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