My dad has recently been diagnosed with a terminal cancer, I don’t know how long he has left as he won’t tell anybody, he wants to carry on living like normal. But as I already have anxiety I really don’t know how to cope. I’ve gone years without seeing my dad before so we don’t really see each other much and he messed up a lot toward me and my brother but obviously I still love him and don’t want to lose him. It’s now set off anxiety towards losing everybody eventually and I just want some closure that I’m going to be able to cope with it and that I will move on. My dad has come to terms with it but I have not.
Hi and welcome to the community though sorry to hear about your father.
Having been living with cancer now for six years has taught my wife and myself that a prognosis (how long) is often more of a guess than many people might think and very often people outlive this; given that cancer treatments are moving on all the time to prognosis is often more of a problem that a solution.
I was luckt to get support from Maggies and Macmillan and I did a living with less stress course that really helped me.
<<hugs>>
Steve
