Sadly I can relate to your story. I am caring for my husband who has Kidney Cancer which has metastasised to the bones and brain. He's had ops to pin, plate and cement the crumbling bones and a craniotomy to remove the brain tumour, unfortunately he suffered a stroke due to the operation. Since the stroke our relationship has definitely changed I feel very lonely most of the time too even though I have 2 grown up children close by - there's some things you can't or don't want to share with close family. So sorry to hear your husbands cancer has returned, I suppose after 5 years you start to think maybe the future looks a little brighter only to be knocked back again with the sad news to be told that its back. My husband was only diagnosed at the beginning of August so everything has happened so quickly. Take care of yourself and share away. X ... View more

Hi Abbeygail, not been on here for a few weeks, so only just saw your post, and I definitely relate to your story. I am also caring for my husband who has Kidney Cancer which has metastasised to the bones and brain. He's had ops to pin, plate and cement the crumbling bones and a craniotomy to remove the brain tumour, unfortunately he suffered a stroke due to the operation. I feel very lonely most of the time too even though I have 2 grown up children close by - like you said there's some things you can't/won't share with close family. Very sad to hear you've been going through this for so long, my husband was only diagnosed at the beginning of August so everything has happened so quickly. Take care of yourself and share away. X ... View more

Hello, I'm new to this site. We've just moved (June 2013)to Melbourne after living in Perth for 4 years. My husband was diagnosed with Prostate Cancer in 2009 and had brachytherapy followed by radiotherapy. In 2010 he had his right kidney removed, and stupidly I breathed a sigh of relief thinking OK the nightmare is over. 6 weeks ago we were told he has Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer. He's just had operations on both upper arms to plate, pin and cement as the bones were crumbling and he'll start radiotherapy next week, they also found lesions on his rib, femur and tibia. We just got the results back from his brain scan and they've found another tumour, it's quite deep, before they make any decisions he's having to go for an MRI to make sure there aren't any more tumours in the brain they have missed. He's only 58 - we've been together for 42 years and I feel so useless and helpless. ... View more