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New Caregiver*Kotsansis Institute* boyfriend's throat chemo & radiation treatment
Hello, I'm reaching out in hopes that someone else may or may not be experiencing the same story but would like to share their experience with me. He, boyfriend is at Kotsansis Institute right now learning about things that can help him during the radiation and chemo treatment which will be starting on June 13th. We both…
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Feel as I am stopping hims
Good afternoon, this is my first time writing. I am my husbands caregiver,he has colon cancer which has metisized to his lungs and liver, doctor said he will be on chemo for the rest of his life. He retired last year at 64 yrs old, he has always been a busy person so this has taken a toll on him going to chemo every other…
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Another Angry Spouse
My husband was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma a year ago. During his surgeries and recovery we were closer than ever. He has elected to do the watch and wait option as his follow up. So far, there has been no recurrence of his cancer. Since October, (approximately one year since diagnosis) he has been displaying extreme…
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Am I being unreasonable?
My husband is undergoing chemo & targeted therapy for CRC, thus is essentially missing a day of work every week. I do not want to be mad at him, Lord only knows what our future holds, but right now I kind of want to ring his neck. (figurativly not litterally). I am having a lot of abdominal issues, so I went to my GI…
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help navigating conversations about money & projects
in a nutshell... i'm the caregiver for my BFF, who is terminal and pretty far gone cognitively. we live on neighboring houses on the same property. that is, we share expenses related to the property. she has no family, so i'm "it" for her. if things were different, i'd have walked away by now because this whole carer thing…
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Mom’s been actively dying for over week now... how to comfort/awful to watch!
Hi, i’m posting because I don’t know how to support my mom or ensure her last moments are joyous ones. She stopped verbal communication over a week ago. When she’s in extreme pain while she’s being bathed in bed she’ll say something but that’s about it. I’ve been by her bedside pretty much non-stop since mid-March (so in…
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The "I don't want to know" parent
I posted more about this on "emotional support", maybe that was the wrong board. My mother is 89 years old. She was in the hospital for a gallstone and told me today that she has pancreatic cancer and doesn't think she wants to treat it. (which would give her a life expectancy of perhaps four months). I am her only…