Hello,
my Nan has recently been diagnosed with another cancer.
Having previous breast,womb and bowel cancer and surviving all of them I can only admire the fighter she is after over coming all of them in her lifetime.
however I’m the later months of this year she was once again diagnosed with early stages of breath cancer, followed by a second cancer within the bowel and now the potential to be in surrounding lymph nodes.
Although the doctors are acting quickly it’s a juggling act to treat it all but not upset any of the areas in the process, this is proving difficult yet we are staying positive.
im finding it hard to cope with one the amount this lady is taking on when she’s already been through it all before but also the unknown of all of it. Being in tier 4 is making it difficult to see/connect with the close family with her and I just don’t know how to cope I’m with everything...
Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Hi and welcome to the community, the best club we would rather nobody ever needed.
I remember the fear of the unknown - though of course for your nan things are not quite as unknown as she might have liked. For all of us of course covid is adding a new layer of unknown and covid and cancer together makes things just that bit more difficut.
I almost did not coped until I went in to a branch of Maggies. I subsequently did their living with less stress course - came to realise I was already planning how I would cope without my wife rather than enjoying our time together Pretty much all the things I imagined did not come to pass but cancer had a whole new load of things to challenge us that I had never thought off - the breathing exercise I had been taught though were great at helping cope with the unexpected but also very good for relaxation.
There are times I never thought I would cope and I don't think we could have managed without a couple of extra special friends - but six years later we are both still here and living with cancer.
<<hugs>>
Steve
