Hello, I’ve just joined this group. My husband has stage 4 prostate cancer and had 6 cycles of chemotherapy finishing in mid august. He coped really well with this but recently everything has gone downhill. He developed pain over left hip which was thought to be trochanteric bursitis, had to wait several weeks for an injection and his mobility deteriorated. We’re waiting for results of a scan but at the moment he is living upstairs and very, very down. He has a long-standing mild left arm and leg weakness following a brain haemorrhage 11 years ago and is an insulin dependent diabetic as well. Our GP has been great all along and tried an antidepressant which unfortunately produced really bad nausea and vomiting so stopped. I have longstanding anxiety and depression, feel I have coped well so far as have needed to take over much of daily chores including driving, and caring for our 2 autistic adult sons as well as supporting another at university and the youngest doing A levels. However I am fast running out of coping strategies, probably Xmas run up isn’t helping.
i would really appreciate your thoughts on how I can support my husband emotionally, and our sons. I am becoming afraid this will be our last Xmas although the initial prognosis looked better. I know our time together is limited and it seems like we are wasting it.
