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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Hello,
My mother has just been diagnosed with cancer of the throat and tongue, I've been seeking to find her some support groups to join, however I am yet to come across any (aside for online of course).
Can anyone recommend anything in Brisbane?
Thank you,
Le...Read More
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Hello,
My mum was diagnosed with actute myeloid leukaemia with acute myeloid fibrosis very recently, and has just finished her first week of chemo. It's just awful to see her so ill, and to see my dad's heart breaking...almost unbearably awful. However, it's so co...Read More
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Hi....I have a friend who's husband is dying of liver cancer. She is basically on her own, & is trying to manage as best she can, but is beginning to be overwhelmed by everything that is happening. she has no support other than myself. There must be a counselling o...Read More
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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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