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I have a great family. And some amazing friends. No girlfriend. Just my beautiful dog. All that and i still can’t talk to them about how i feel. 3 weeks ago i buried my big brother. He had his 40th in February. For 3 years he had been fighting brain cancer. I can’t...Read More
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Hi I want to share my story. More than 3years ago I met my husband ,it was love at first sight,we went to live together,had a great relationship but one day we got the bad news melanoma stage 4,spread already in all the organs. From that moment life changed,but we ...Read More
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Hi, I'm new to the community but just need to write this out and 'vent' my frustrations.
This all started when my dad was diagnosed with grade 4 glioblastoma in 2017, he got the results on my twin sons first birthday. He always had hope that he would recover from...Read More
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My dad passed away on the 26 May 2018. He had brain tumours. He battled this for over two years, he was in so much pain. I am 42 years old. I miss him terribly. I have lost faith in everything. When he was dying I thought that there would be signs he was around whe...Read More
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Hi my father passed away 2 months ago today from colon cancer and today is also his birthday. I was his full time carer for the last 4 months of his life so he could stay at home in his own surroundings where he was comfortable. This disease is horrendous on suffer...Read More
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Hi. My name is Peter. My wife Belinda passed away just over three months ago. I have been very up and down over that time, and my friends and family have been of great support. I have also seen professionals for support. In the end, though, I feel very alone on thi...Read More
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Hi everyone. My dad passed away on December 23, 2018. An agressive form of myeloma took his life at the age of 57. It only took the cancer 6 months. I was entering my final year of law school when I learned that my dad had cancer. During the months that he was ill,...Read More
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Barbara is very low at this time, she made the effort on Sunday to have local visitors and spent some time calling distant family but lack of energy finally beat her, as she wanted to chat to you, unfortunately this will never happen, as communication has all but ...Read More
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Hi I’m Zen,
3 days ago I lost my husband from stage 4 colon cancer and it’s was metastasis. In June I had lumpectomy and had one month radiation treatment.
One after my husband was diagnosed with colon cancer, he had 9 months chemo and one 15 minute radiation t...Read More
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We lost my mother aged 73 to stomach cancer 6 weeks ago. While she was ill, she was publicly shamed by a waitress in a restaurant. Below is the story of how we took cancer shaming to the national press and postumously my mother changed a nationwide policy for futur...Read More
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