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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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Good morning Amber
Sorry to hear about your Uncle, I hope he has a treatment plan in place as that can be helpful when you know what's going to happen.
One of the moderators will hopefully be along soon to point you to the pages that may be helpful for you but do come back and chat to us here if it helps. We do talk about lots of other things apart from cancer to help take our minds off our situations for a while.
H
Morning all
We're off in the motorhome again today, going to Oulton Park racetrack in Cheshire to watch our friend race in the Mazda series, then on Sunday we'll pop up to Liverpool to visit Alan's M&D for a night before coming back home on Monday.
I'm just about to go and pack the fridge in the motorhome then we'll go and have breakfast at Tesco before meeting our friends at Cobham services on the M25.
Ukiboy it's not unusual to have bad days and probably quite healthy to get these things off your chest. My worst days were when my flippin' wound wouldn't heal. It's a new day and hopefully you're feeling a bit better about it all.
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Hello AmberK
A warm welcome to the online Community from me although I am so sorry to find you joining us. You will find plenty of support for your Uncle here:
Just click on the link above and it will take you there. Once the page opens up, click on "join" on the black banner at the bottom of the page.
If you do need any further help in navigating the Community please do get back to me.
Best wishes - Brian.

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Just reading the post about sleeping i haven't seen it before but it has been there for a while that how my mind works when it comes to phones and i have not had a page to right thing on and post them because my support has been my family but iv read a lot of what people have posted and you all Help each other which it gives me a lift I'm a bit slow on picking things up but i will get there i no it will take a long time on what to do eny way back to sleeping problems since i have had my kidney cancer removed and the other health problems my sleep has been a nightmare 2 hours a night which is no good for a bus driver so going to bed one Saturday night getting 2 hours sleep so i had a mad couple of hours which i put the Sunday dinner on which i thought in my mind was a good thing to do putting it on at 2 o'clock Sunday morning then i thought i would help my wife by hovering up so that's what I did at 2 30 in the morning well what a mistake after about my wife was stood behind me she looked like she was blowing fire out of her ears and her mouth so i thought wrong thing to do at 2 o'clock in the morning and that's my sleep problems 2 hours a night since i had the cancer
Just asking a question how is it that people who have had kidney cancer then you get a lot of health problems which i can't understand so how long will it last because since the end of June last year i have had 16 infection up and till now 2 spells in hospital with a drane in my lungs to get the infection out so how long will it last before i will feel a bit better
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