Is IPTAAS available for partners, next of kin, carers to visit there loved one in hospital?   I live 230km from where my husbandis having a series of High Dose Chemo followed by Stem cell transplants, he is quiet ill and we have kid at home, so I am down in Sydney every weekend, and then do a day trip on Wednesdays, the fuel and accomodation is starting to add up.   ... View more

My husband is in hospital 3.5 hours away his had high dose chemo and a stem cell transplant, we can't afford for me to stay down there.   But the catch is he is so unwell and doesn't get to message or call me very often.    I have no no idea how he is and what is happening down there. I understand the nurses are busy, but I am struggling here  not knowing.    I have tried ried to ring the ward, but no one answers, I even resorted tonight to emailing his hematology nurse tonight in hope they ring.   i am at the point of farming the kids out and sleeping in the car in the car park at the hospital just so I know what's going on. ... View more

I have two teenage boys (17 & 15), and my husband was diagnosed with stage 3 germ cell testicular cancer at Easter 2016. He had BEP chemo at our local hospital and then TIP chemo with stem cell harvesting in Sydney. Now he is in hospital in Sydney having high dose chemo and stem cell transplants.    I have continued to work throughout his chemo, for sanity and financial reasons, although he is still on sick leave and collecting a wage, the cost of drugs and the accomodation in Sydney is chewing up our money and we are going backwards.   i would really like to be with him, but I need to work and look after the kids.   is anyone else out there juggling it all? I feel like I am not doing any of my roles, mother, wife, carer and employee very well but don't really have much else I can do. ... View more

My husband was diagnosed with Stage 3 germ cell testicular cancer at Easter this year. We have done BEP chemo for 4 cycles and had surgeries to remove brain tumours and a tumour from behind the knee. We were about to lung surgery but discover the cancer had become active again, so now having TIP chemo which will be followed by CE chemo in the new year.   i say we because everyone in the family is effected by cancer, even if we don't have it, I have put everything on hold to help him and our boys get through this. It's a long road, I am still working and am the sole driver in the house.   my husband feels that he is the only one going through this roller coaster and has become very self centred and seems incapable of being able to make adult decisions.    After 10 **bleep** months of dedication, sacrifice, isolation and emotional upheaval trying to keep this family together and relatively normal. Tonight after coming home from work and falling asleep on the lounge only to get up to cook dinner for everyone and iron school clothes, I was destroyed in one sentence. I was told that I solely was tearing my family apart, was angry and selfish. So it turns out no matter how much you give, sometimes people just don't see or appreciate it. It's left me unsure, alone and total devastated.   i would like my nice husband and life back not this **bleep** cancer one. ... View more

  Who do you tell When the news is great Tell the world Let's celebrate   Who do you tell When the news is bad Lock it up Let's commiserate   Who do you tell When your world caves in Tell who I don't need to counsel you too   Who do I tell I need to be free This burden could kill me ... View more