Hello.
My parents (in their 70s) are currently at the start of my dad's chemotheraphy treatment for prostate cancer, and neither of them are handling it well. I really think they both need to talk to a coucillor of some sort; my mother isn't coping at all - getting angry and stressed and even suggested he stop chemo after one treatment. My dad is zeroing in on every ache and pain, and I am concerned that this is not only impacting on his day-to-day, but also on his longer term mental health and ability to cope with treatment.
He has 1 x chemo session every three weeks and they have five left. Following that, he will have 5 weeks of radiotherapy.
Does anyone have any advice on things I can do/offer/suggest to help them both with getting through the next 16 weeks? Dad is not great at sitting still, or accepting he is ill, and mum has very high anxiety at the best of times. I was planning on perhaps staying there for a couple of days after treatment and sharing the load of this with my brother, but I don't know what else to suggest to them.
I was thinking audiobooks to keep his mind occupied, but I'm at a loss as to how to really help them :(
Any ideas on how I can help would be greatly appreciated
Thank you
