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Hi my dad has been diagnosed with kidney cancer and I'm scared. I try to be positive but there are so many assumptions and I'm scared of the facts. I have terrible fears and nightmares, in saying that so glad to find supportive community to be a part of Read More
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Hello everyone,
I was looking for some support and hoping to speak with people and families in similar situations as my family is currently In?
My husband who is 35 has been fighting brain cancer for 10 years (diagnosed at 25 ), as a stage 2 oligoastrocytoma it...Read More
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My husband was diagnosed with a GBM in december 2012. He has had stereotactic radiation treatment and chemo (temodal), which will continue for as long as he can tolerate it (and he tolerates it well thankfully). While he was getting treatment we were in sydney, l...Read More
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My father has Bladder Cancer, he is 79 and currently in transitional care waiting on a placement in a nursing home. Dad also has other health issues, congestive heart failure, chronic renal failure, AF Mr and also dementia. Lately he has had reoccurring chest infec...Read More
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Is there anybody that can give me an idea of what to expect now that mum is palliative, has all over body pains, new and changing almost weekly, weight loss and eating still but little and not often, mum is still fairly mobile, but is becoming physically weaker by ...Read More
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My husband has a GBM and over the last couple of days he has had a few falls. This has happened a couple of times before, but I'm struggling to lift him on my own now because he is less able to help. Any suggestions (other than of course trying to make sure he do...Read More
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Hi everyone. Today I found out that my dear friend's mother has liver cancer. I am a true believer in the power of positive thinking and desperately would like to send his mother a book or something that has been put together of the survivors out there and their su...Read More
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I'm really interested in whether GBM carers work given the dire prognosis.
I have taken leave from work for 3 personal and practical reasons.
1. To spend as much time as I can with my husband
2. We have to travel for treatment/tests/review
3. We never get any w...Read More
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I have been reading the posts here and I want to reply to them and try to make these poor people feel a little better but just have no idea what to say. So I have decide to just add my own post and say I wish everyone luck on getting through their horiable sad time...Read More
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hi there, i am a male late forties. two kids and a wife that got bladder cancer 13 years ago. trying really hard to deal with all related issues. kids banks jobs parents and daily life stuffs.
to write my feelings down seems to help me.
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