My dad was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer that has spread to his liver, he had his biopsy done on Monday and has been given a prognosis of up to 6 months. If they can offer him chemo (they said it’s a big if due to his health ailments) it could extend his life to 12 months.
We as a family have no help or support there’s only me, my mum and my brother but my dad isn’t wanting to accept any help or support for himself only for us as a family. He’s really angry, telling everyone he doesn’t need anyone or any help. I understand he’ll be having all sorts of feelings as this is still all new and fresh. Is this normal for all of these feelings? Is there any way the family can gain support without having to have my dads say so? I just don’t know what to do
Hi Kelly1994xo
Welcome to our community, I hope you find it both informative and supportive.
Sorry to hear about your dad, I would guess his feelings are not really unusual of course depending on how he is feeling in himself especially as you mention other health issues.
Anyone is welcome to ring the helpline here and then there are also a range of local support we can find it we enter our postcode in our in your area tool. Sometimes it helps to use the hospital postcode too. I was lucky in that there is a maggies at the hospital my wife is treated at.
Something I found quite helpful was looking at your feelings when someone has cancer as it helped me realise that what I was feeling was normal and that helped me make some sense of things.
<<hugs>>
Steve
