My wonderful dad has been diagnosed with an incurable secondary brain tumour. I’m devastated and finding it very hard to cope. I can’t stop crying and truly don’t know how I’ll ever feel happy again. He’s my best friend and the soul of our family. He will be taking a targeted drug (canozantinib) to try and stop the growth. Does anyone have experience of this? He is so fit and well generally and I’m so sad that his quality of life may be taken from him. Thank you and sending strength to all x
Hi Kingfisher23 and welcome to our community although sorry to hear about what you are going through.
Sorry I have no experience of that drug and I assume you have already seen the page here about it. Good news to hear about him being fit and well otherwise and that can help to make treatment easier and very worthwhile taking all the other meds around treatment as they really do help to limit the impact of quality of life.
I know with my wife's cancer I really struggled until, eventually, I reached out for help. If we look at Your feelings when someone has cancer I know I recognize a lot of what I went through. I ended up doing a living with less stress course and that really helped me accept that those emotions were normal and that helped me feel less overwhelmed. I used to mostly cry in the shower.
Together we can make a great team so thank you for sharing some of your strength.
<<hugs>>
Steve
