My partner has been incredibly strong since I was diagnosed with Bladder Cancer just about a year ago. But after a failed BCG immunotherapy treatment, and recently a radical cystectomy the stress is taking its toll, and she sometimes says she can’t go on. I can only imagine how she feels. She says she / we have lost a year of her life. I don’t really know what to say, so I just listen.
I am not well enough yet to manage on my own, so she can take a break of a few days, which I am sure she would like.
I am feeling somewhat guilty that she has had to put up with this ordeal, and sometimes have wild thoughts, maybe we should go our own ways so she can get on with her life etc.
Any ideas as to how I can make her life more bearable / what I might say would be gratefully received.
thanks,
Leo
