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Tips on living with cancer (video)
Hi everyone, Last summer, I was diagnosed with stage 4 head & neck cancer and was fortunate enough to enter remission recently. The internet helped me quite a bit in terms of coping with lifestyle changes and I frequently heard people say: "I would not trade my post-cancer life for my pre-cancer life". Although largely…
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My mom has stage 4 cancer
Hi my name is Jazmine im 29 years old. A little more than 1 year ago my mom was diagnosed with stage 4 non hodgkins lymphoma. I couldn't believe it i was in shock immediately follwed by fear. At this point im very angry i feel anxious all the time. It's just not fair!
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telling my family
I was just diagnosed with MBC. My original cancer diagnosis was 2009. I do not want to tell my family (siblings, mother). My mother turns 88 today and I cant break her heart. She lives about 100 miles away and I see her about every 2 months. I am definitely waiting until all of my tests results come back and I meet with…
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I'm Scared, Angry and Alone.
I'm 30 years old I found out five days before my 30 birthday I have stage 3 uterus cancer and a full hysterectomy. I don't have no kids and I guess ill never be able to have any unless I adopt which is fine. But at the same time my sisters have children one of them is pregnant with her second child and I can't help but…
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Family Problems
Hello everyone. I have had difficult relationships with my family most of my life. First it was because I was an irresponsible 20 something kid. Then it was because I had found Christ and nobody understood my life changes. I was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s a little over a year and a half ago. In that time I have beat…
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Too Much Pressure, Not Enough Consideration
Mostly a Rant My grandma had breast cancer, then lung cancer, and now she's on her second round of chemo for lung cancer again. The first round of chemo was scary, but she didn't want much outside help, just me all the time as the one that lives with her. This second round I said I couldn't do it alone, so I enlisted…