Hi Hurdleman

I suffer the same anxiety and insomnia. I'm not by nature a worrier or anxious person, but this disease does get to me at times and the demons seem to come at night. By daybreak and morning coffee a more balanced perspective returns but am exhausted for rest of the day from lack of sleep. Nurse Tina has provided some good advice worth following up. Talking to other people about it seems to help, for me anyway. I have supportive friends and family too. However the anxiety is mine and remains.

Ed

Hi Hurdleman

I suffer the same anxiety and insomnia. I'm not by nature a worrier or anxious person, but this disease does get to me at times and the demons seem to come at night. By daybreak and morning coffee a more balanced perspective returns but am exhausted for rest of the day from lack of sleep. Nurse Tina has provided some good advice worth following up. Talking to other people about it seems to help, for me anyway. I have supportive friends and family too. However the anxiety is mine and remains.

Ed

Cheers Ed, much the same I’ve always been very laid back. Run my own business for forty years through thick and thin. Hard to adjust to being pretty much helpless when you’ve been the strong  one. Luckily like you I have great family and friends. Hopefully when our heads hit the pillow at some point we’ll find some peace.

Thanks Ed , sounds very similar to my situation. Blessed with great support but when your head hits the pillow it’s just you and your mind racing.. 

Hopefully for both of us and all the rest in the same situation it will ease.

All my friends always said I’m the most laid back person they have ever met. How things change..

All the Best 

G 

Sorry for two reply’s  Ed but bit of of a technophobe! Comfortable with a Billhook not so much a keyboard.

You are doing absolutely fine with your computer skills. Like you Ive run my business all my life. Good years bad years. Good decisions and some disterous ones. But always dealt with whatever situation arose. Always resilient and self reliant Now with cancer Im finding it harder to cope. I still do some physical work each day and deal with day to day admin.

Ive had a good look at what causes me anxiety. It is not the cancer or treatment or the end outcome. It is trying to tie up all the ends of my life so they are not a major problem for my family. Contractual obligations tax planning complicated financial arrangements etc. And doing this through a thick fog in my brain. The personal bits like arranging funeral power of attorney making a will clearing out personal possessions has been easy. Cancer cetainly upends life in unexpected ways.

Ed

It certainly does Ed.

I hope things get easier..

Best

G