Hi, I’m new to all this, so sorry if this turns out to be a long post!
My husband was diagnosed with oesophageal cancer last month, unfortunately it’s a stage 4, large and aggressive tumour and we have been told it’s “treatable not curable” he’s been told he has around 9-15 months. As I’m sure you can imagine, we are devastated. He had kidney cancer 4 years ago, which only required surgery, but have been told that that has also spread to his lungs.
he started on EOX chemo last week with the aim of prolonging life. So far he’s been lucky and apart from tiredness and pins and needles he’s not really suffered any side effects.
I don’t really know what I’m here asking for, other than perhaps some positive stories and a little hope that we can still have some kind of life before the inevitable happens. Doctors haven’t really been very helpful. We have been told we’ll qualify for very little help from the government as my wage is too good. We have 4 kids and the younger 2 (14 and 9) aren’t taking it too well, even though they don’t know the full picture yet (they think the treatment might make daddy better.) Just feel scared, lost and alone at the moment.
sorry for going on.
