Hi everyone hope you’re all well. My name is Hajirah and I’m 31 years old. My mum was recently diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer (Adenocarcinoma). My mum is currently receiving tablet form treatment to help stop the spread of the cancer and to reduce the tumours in her body. If I’m being really honest, I’m struggling a lot to cope with everything, I was raised by a single mother my whole life, my mum for me is my world and imagining and preparing myself for a life without her is breaking me. Everyone around me keeps telling me to stay positive and hopefully the treatment will work but her prognosis is 2/3 years with treatment so I find it really difficult to stay positive because I keep thinking of the worst.
Hi Hajirah and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.
I'm sorry to read that your mum has recently been diagnosed with lung cancer and it's perfectly normal to be feeling as you do.
The online community is divided up into different support groups so I'm going to recommend that you join the lung cancer group, where you can ask questions and share experiences about your mum's diagnosis and treatment.
I think you'd also benefit from joining either the carers only group, if you are your mum's carer, or the family and friends group if you're not her carer. Both are safe and supportive places to share your worries and emotions with others who have a loved one living with cancer.
To join these groups, just click on the links I've created and, once you've joined, you can start a new post in the same way as you did here and join in with existing conversations by clicking on 'reply'.
It would be great if you could pop something about your mum's diagnosis and treatment into your profile as it really helps others when replying to you and also when looking for someone on a similar pathway. It also means that you don't have to keep repeating yourself. To do this click on your username and then select 'Profile'. You can amend it at any time and if you're not sure what to write you can take a look at mine by clicking on my username.
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