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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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My husband has gone aggressive chemo for 3 months and has had multiple complications with a port leak. He is really short tempered and is snapping at me all the time. I’m trying to ignore it but it’s hard. I am trying my best to support him but am losing the will t...Read More
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Hello. I'm feeling heartbroken and would love some advice on how I can support my beautiful best friend who is losing her fight with cancer. I think her time is short. She has accepted what's happening, but now I need to focus on what I can do for her husband who's...Read More
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I live in Sydney and my brother, dad and mum are in New Delhi. My brother called me late November and said that I should come home because dad is getting an operation- Never in my worst nightmare could I have thought it would be cancer. I only found out the day I l...Read More
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Hi all. this is my first time ever posting in an online forum… but I feel so utterly hopeless and distraught…my dad, who is 61 and was the picture of perfect health was diagnosed with metastatic kidney cancer 5-months ago. He is overseas…. And it has been a challen...Read More
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My mum was diagnosed with breast cancer back in 2020, a couple months later it had metastasised and spread to her bones. Her breast cancer is aggressive HER2+. She has ongoing treatments every 3 weeks, fast forward 4 years, recently the drugs have stopped working. ...Read More
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My husband has been through 5yrs of hell, this was his 3rd cancer surgery & recovery, the last, was in the nerve stem cell to his brain, he also had a massive tumour on his face. This operation was over 13hrs long & honestly, I didn’t think he would make it, but he...Read More
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I belong to a Facebook page called "Caring for Husband's with Cancer". It's really big now, international and has over 1000 members. The reason for this post is that more and more women are posting about how abusive their husbands are (ususally emotionally and ve...Read More
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HelloI am sharing because my husband was diagnosed 8 weeks ago with multiple Myeloma cancer.We had marriage problems but now on the dexamethasone and pain meds he has become very moody angry irritable and emotionally abusive. I am beside myself. I can't leave him a...Read More
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Hi all,
This is my first post here. I didn't know where else to turn to talk about this and am glad I found this forum.
I'm a single mum with two kids and have been dating a man for 8 months now. Whilst we do love each other, the relationship has always had challen...Read More
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