Hi All,
Reaching out for support, chat and well everything really.
in short my wife has just had cancer diagnosis with 18 month being the time line. We have been married for 8 years now and 2 wonderful (if not a handful) children (but also adopted which brings a whole range of early life traumas) and a 20 year son from my first marriage also with trauma due to the separation.
I am very scared, I love my wife and our life we have made (there imperfections but that is real life).
I am not ready to say good bye I cant see me ever being.
I am not ready to be a single parent for 2 children that have suffered so much loss already in their lives.
I know what I need to do and we have a great supporting community building hour by hour as I speak and lucky to have this.
Really looking for advice guidance out there is help with this horrific journey so we can get through and also give my wife the best quality of life while we can.
Thank you for reading.
Hi Adopted_Children and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.
I’m Anne, one of the Community Champions here on the Online Community, and I'm sorry to read that your wife has just been given a prognosis of 18 months after being diagnosed with cancer. It must have come as a terrible shock to the whole family.
As you've found, the online community is divided into different support groups so I'm going to recommend that you join the supporting someone with incurable cancer group which is for anyone who has a loved one living with a terminal diagnosis. You can discuss your emotions openly there with others who will understand exactly how you feel.
If you'd like to join, just click on the link I've created and, once you've joined, you can start a new post in the same way as you did here and join in with existing conversations by clicking on 'reply'.
Sending virtual (((hugs)))
"Never regret a day in your life, good days give you happiness, bad days give you experience"
