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“Getting a cancer diagnosis is extremely stressful, and that brings a whole load of emotions, and lack of sleep certainly does not help. I think many of us have periods of insomnia. I experienced a long period of not sleeping. I could go off to sleep quite quickly, but after an hour I would find myself wide awake again, and would spend the rest of the night getting frustrated because I couldn't sleep."
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Eddie, your work is fabulous! I love the hare picture especially, but you are really talented.
Sarah xx
Hello there and welcome to the chat! Please feel free to join in with anything here-it’s a general chat group for everybody.
Sarah xx
Oh my…I’m really sorry to hear you’ve had a cancer diagnosis so young-that’s a lot to take on board.
This particular group is for general chit chat, so you might find it helpful to also join one of the other groups which are cancer specific where people with a similar diagnosis might be able to offer support and advice. I’ll put a link here to the sarcoma forum-just click on it and you’ll get straight there-
It can be harder with the less common cancers to connect with others in exactly the same situation, but I’d recommend, if you’d like to, joining the sarcoma group and introducing yourself there to see if anyone else there can share their experience of radiotherapy.
Meanwhile, there are plenty in this chat group who will be more than happy to chat about all sorts of different things at all different times of the day and night!
Sarah xx
I had a different cancer but did have radiotherapy and it was 5 days a week with weekends off, and that’s quite a common pattern for this kind of treatment. It is tiring going to hospital every day, but you can catch up on sleep at the weekends-I certainly needed to! Once you get your plan, you’ll settle into a routine with it.
I hope you’ve got some good family support around you.
Sarah xx
