Caregivers
Discussion List
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Eating
My wife is 52 and I am 46. She was diagnosed with stage four colon cancer on August 9th of this year. She has had many problems. Her one and only chemo treatment almost killed her by opening a hole in her colon. After that hospital stay she devoloped a bed sore. For the last four or five days she has been eaten nothing and…
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New Hear and Struggling
My wife, she is 36 and I am 39, was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in Spetember 2003. The surgery to remove her right breast and Lymph nodes revealed that 25 nodes were affected. She went thru 16 weeks of Chemo and 8 radiation treatments, and within a week of finishing it metastisized to her brain. The Dr. initially called…
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Intimacy and Sexuality
My wife is a 7 year cancer survivor. Unfortunately, we have not been able to be intimate for more than that seven year period. I have extreme guilt about my personal desires and need to have the closeness of her. Fantasies are the only way I remain faithful to my wedding vows. I know this has got to be common in male…
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how do i get back to me
at 23 I was put in the caregivers role. My partner was very ill. Today after three years of treatment and terrible side effects he is doing great. However I am not doing so well. I have no idea who I am. i feel lost and it is eating me alive. the focus of my life was on him for the entire time. I tried to express my…