Hello Everyone, I'm new to this chat group, well where do I start. I lost my mum to lung cancer 3 and a half years ago I helped care for her along with her partner and my sister, my mum fought very hard for 2 years but sadly lost the fight with us by her side. my dad hasn't been well for a year now with a very bad infection which we found out was coming for his replacement hip so they had to remover that and get rid of the infection before they can put the new hip in but unfortunaly the date he was due to get his operation we got told they would have to cancel it because they have found that his prostate is enlarged and they would like to do more tests after 3 months of tests we got told 2 weeks ago that he has advanced prostate cancer, I have been my dads carer for a year now because he isn't able to do much with just one hip. I'm finding it very hard to get my head around my dads diagnoses. After seeing what my mum when through I'm not sure how I'll cope with seeing my dad going through it. Sorry I have just went off on one there
Hi and welcome to the community though sorry to hear about your mum and now your dad.
Perhaps an important thing to note is that prostrate cancer and lung cancer are very different so the experience with one might not be that good a model for the other. It does sound like your dad does have rather a lot of things to cope with though - that I can really relate to.
In our little club we know how hard things can be, do post whenever you feel it will help you because there will be others in a similar situation who may take some comfort in not being the only one.
<<hugs>>
Steve
