Both my wife 75 and our only son 49 have been diagnosed with rare cancers within days of each other. I’m not into the cancer names really just the effects on my family. Our son after suffering with Crohn’s disease for many years now has stomach cancer which, unfortunately is untreatable, he is hospitalised but is looking to go home to receive daily palliative care and to be with his wife and two young daughters for what time he has left to him.
my wife has a rare form of lung cancer even though she doesn’t smoke. She is under going a chemotherapy course and is waiting for scan results to see what effect the treatment is having.
Personally I am struggling to cope with the situation, I’m not sleeping at all well, I still have some hope that my wife’s treatment will at least give us more time together, but the feeling that our son is somehow being robbed of his future, not seeing his girls become young women maybe going to university, giving them away at their wedding and much more.
I always thought that when people talked about a broken heart it was just words, but my heart is truly broken and I don’t think I can cope.
