Our beautiful young daughter has within the last two weeks been diagnosed with ovarian cancer, I really don't know how to help her. Only last week I lost my mom so I'm not in the best of help. Our other daughter is struggling with the loss of her nan and her sisters diagnosis. My husband is not doing well with the diagnosis of his little girl. I'm trying to be strong for all three whilst at the same time trying to process the loss of my mom and arranging her funeral. I have siblings, but they can't help as they are also just trying to come to terms with loosing mom. Our dad passed away 3 years ago. I just feel so alone and shouldering the whole burden, I don't know what to do.
Hi sanpic
Welcome to our community, while we are always sorry to see a new friend join I hope you find you made the best choice ever.
It is difficult for me to imagine how you feel with a daughter with cancer, in my case it is my wife - Leiomyosarcoma and that is difficult enough. We do have a group for Parents of children with cancer forum that might be helpful to look at.
If only "I have to be strong" was as easy to do as it is to write then I think none of us would be here. There are some really good tips in Looking after someone with cancer that might help both you and your husband. Perhaps the most powerful is talking about cancer. I know since I started talking about cancer at work a number of people have opened up to me about their feelings where they were worried nobody would understand.
This year we even produced a special blog on feeling lonely, you can read it here.
Welcome to our family, together we can do this.
<<hugs>>
Steve
