Hi all, this is my first time posting. I don’t have cancer but we recently found out my grandad has.
He has it in several places, including 2 large sarcomas. I saw one of them for the first time today and I can’t get the image out of my head. I don’t know why it’s hit me so hard seeing it. I guess you usually think of cancer of this thing inside the body out of sight, but this thing was there loud and proud sticking out of his side clear as day. It was awful.
This, along with his apparent naivety about his prognosis is absolutely heart breaking. 9 months ago, he was chasing my kids around the garden, going on 3 mile walks with a walking group, going to watch the football every other weekend, etc etc, now he can barely walk, struggled to even sit up in bed today.
No questions really, I just wanted to write this down somewhere where people might understand. I don’t feel I can talk about it to anyone around me in this way
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