I’m a full time carer for my partner. He’s late 20s. He had Ewing sarcoma on his right leg in 2013, they managed to successfully remove it all. He had chemo and radiotherapy.
he’s had a lump on his rib for sometime. Today we got the news that it is a tumor and it’s highly likely the cancer has come back. Within the next 2 weeks we have to go up to London. I’m beside myself and I don’t know what I’m supposed to do. We’ve planned our future together and I just dont know what to do
Hi
Sorry to hear about your partner, a cancer diagnosis is always a challenge but even more so when it feels like things had gone away but then it seems not.
Your comments remind me of the conversations we have had here around anticipatory grief - sometimes that life we had planned that snatched away.
I really struggled with my wife's diagnosis (Leiomyosarcoma) early on, especially as she did not want a prognosis. I ended up doing a living with less stress course and that helped me realise that while I could worry about what was coming it made no difference apart from making me upset - ended up making plans that were more flexible with the idea they might go out the window but that was ok. Life likes to throw surprises at us from time to time and the concious breathing tips are very helpful then.
Do post on here whenever it might help you, we all know how hard it can be and someone will always be there.
<<hugs>>
Steve
