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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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Julie
My dear new pal, thanks for sharing this with me.
I agree, its very weird and we've had stress.
Turns out the hospital we were at is under so many investigations for poor everything there was even an article headlines about it today.
So it wasn't a unique poor time, sadly many have had that experience.
Same situation as my hubby, its surreal and some staff are good some are not.
I visited him today and he's not having any side effects on chemo and looks a lot better.
We talked about our usual dream holiday which we cant afford at the moment lol
Is a cruise in the Mediterranean we often talk about where we'd go.
We've been to the Med separately but not together.
You never know, you never know what's round the corner, my dad used to say good times are just around the corner and l was impressed by its pround hopeful sound then hubby said he got that off the Spar advert lol. So like my dad funny and making it all up as he went along lol but so hopeful and it pays off, there are new things out there and our consultant said there are new things in the pipeline unheard of before x thanks for the advice will try and settle down a bit tonight
Hugs and thanks x
That feeling of a sense of loss is so understandable. You've also had a crazy week. You must be physically and mentally exhausted. Try to be kind to yourself and lean on family and friends. Don't juge yourself for feeling like this. All my love and support.
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