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Surgeon told me five years to live
I like to know what gives a doctor the right to tell you that you have five years to live. I know that I'm not that smart so I wanted to check out lung cancer on the net. He told me to get my affairs in order because if I didn't get operated now I'll be dead in five years.With me I don't like it when someone trys to push…
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Where's the handbook?
I really wish there were some type of handbook that would help in dealing with cancer, with a list of "How To's"...but if there is, I sure can't find it. I'm usually supportive of everyone else in any circumstance, especially cancer related, but I seem to be all out of juice right now. I don't usually reach out to others…
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not able to eat - losing weight
My boyfriend just finished having both cemo and radation treatments done. Treatments went thru about 4 months. In this time period and since the treatments have stopped, he has lost 70 plus pounds. He can't seem to keep any food or liquid down. He had cancer in 3 different areas - lypnoids, lungs and colon. The lypnoids…
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Searching for meaning...
I'm a 21 year old bachelor and have been the caretaker of two loved ones who have had the misfortune of being diagnosed with cancer. My mother died at the age 48 on November 17, 2006 as a result of advanced cancer. I had been there with her through it all, watched as her health deteriorated and was there at her side when…
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Has anyone experienced this?
Hi all, I am new here. I am trying to find some answers to some emotional problems that I have. Its really kind of strange to explain but the best way I can explain it is like this... I know everyone around me, I know where I am, what day it is, what time it is, what the date is but its like Im not there. Its like living…
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Friend's Refusal to Acknowledge an Awful DX
I recently moved to a new state to begin graduate school only a month and a half after my dad was diagnosed stage IV colon cancer. I'm having a difficult time telling new people about my situation. I guess it's mostly because I do not want to cry infront of people I hardly know. But also I don't want to parade my awful…
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How do you deal with dating as a cancer survivor?
I'm finally putting myself out in the dating world, going to single events and joining dating websites but I am unsure about how to present myself as far as revealing I had cancer to someone I am interested in and don't want to lose. There is someone who is interested in me and knows about the cancer but so far I have kept…
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Not sure where to turn to
Hi. My husband was diagnosed with metastisized sarcoma last year. He is 33 years old. This has definately been a roller coaster of emotions. Just when we think things are going well, we are hit with bad news again. He has undergone two different types of chemo treatment(6 rounds of the first type and three of the…
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Divorce
Hi - after reading all your posts, I have come to the conclusion that this happens WAY too frequently. I was diagnosed in 1999 with CLL - did "watch and wait" for a short time and then started chemo later on that same year. I have done 2 or 3 tries at chemo and while they worked short term in the beginning - they quit…
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New to site
My name is Angie and I am new to this site. My husband is 33 and has terminal colon cancer. This has been the most horrible and rewarding year of my life, and now that I know he is coming to the end of his, I have been overwhelmed. I have three young children who will be devasted when he is gone, how do I hold myself…