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cancer is unforgiving

In 2006 my grandmother passed away aged 68 from multiple myeloma after fighting for 5 years. Now there are better treatment options, that she unfortunately missed out on. In dec 2022 her son (my dad) was diagnosed with aggressive pancreatic cancer. He is only 62 an...Read More

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Absolutely devastated

2016 I was diagnosed with Nodular Melanoma stage 3b. Skin graft and WLE to top of my head.2017 33 nodules removed from side of neck, was in 1.2017-2018 Blind Immunotherapy Trial....lots of side effectsEnd 2018 pneumonitis, then PE in lungs, then given Clexane inje...Read More

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Lung cancer wife passed

Wife passed on 1/10/23. Got pneumonia. She had stage 4 lung cancer to the bones. We fought for a year. Nodule found it 2018. Bad doctor keep saying oh we ct it every year. They hardly ever turn to cancer. So 18/18/20 was not cancer. Then in 21 orders biopsy. Now ...Read More

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Guilt and grief

Hi everyone, Lately I have been feeling weighted down by a feeling of guilt that I am struggling to understand and even properly identify. My mother died of cancer 8 years ago now and ever since then I’ve had this feeling of guilt related to my father. It comes and...Read More

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Courage

My wife passed away on June 7th, since then I have pretty much been driving myself crazy. To sum it up I really just didn’t want to live any more (I am not suicidal) just having a hard time finding a reason to go on. Our house is quite cluttered; we’ve lived here f...Read More

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Loss of my partner, sole-mate and best friend my wife of 26 years

I am so lost i miss my wife so much she was my sole-mate, the person i loved so much, we were supposed to grow old together and do the things you do together, she completed my existence on this world and now she has gone.i have such a dark hole to climb out off n...Read More

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My beautiful mum has gone to heaven

Yesterday has got to have been the worse day. We knew it was coming, mum was restless and feeling so unwell. She pushed us away until just before she left this world. She only wanted my dad to be around when she left. I missed her by a maybe 30 minutes. But I spoke...Read More

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Lost my Dad

I lost my Dad on the 17th of August 2021. It’s been two months now and I’m still a wreck. It comes in waves, but his birthday is coming soon and I know I’m going to be a wreck. I’m 26 about to turn 27 and I feel so lost. There was still so much I needed to learn fr...Read More

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My Mum Has Passed - Need Advice

Hi All! My Mum had a long battle with cancer. She was injected with experimental hormones to stop her growing between the ages of 11 & 14 (class action proceeding) which caused many health problems and was the underlying cause of obesity, fertility issues, and brea...Read More

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Mum's fight is over

My mum lost her battle with cancer on 16th Feb, 2022. She was 76 years old.She passed away surrounded by her children, not in pain we were told thanks to morphine, in palliative care in hospital.Her first cancer diagnosis was in 2005 for breast cancer, she had a fu...Read More

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