Husband has been diagnosed with metastatic colorectal cancer and commenced palliative chemo last week.

He will be on a three week pattern of infusion, tablets for 2 weeks and 1 week off.

As this is all new to us (emergency surgery on 22nd April 25) and everything has happened very quickly I have been using google, trusted sites to try and help him through with diet, nausea, tiredness etc.

However I have also come across lots of information that says you shouldn't be using the same loo and if you do, double flushing and disinfecting after every use. If he is 'sweating' in the night sleep in another bed. We have been married 30 years and share a bathroom and basin. Our toothbrushes are side by side. I have stopped taking a cheeky chug out of his drink left on the side out of fear but struggling to try and navigate my way through fact or fiction.

Do I need to be making provisions to start separating our lives. If so what do I tell him that we now need to start being careful about 'cross-contamination'. As with all newly diagnosed people he is trying to work through some of the toughest months of his life and I think it will break him if I tell him that the drugs he is now taking could also cause harm to others.

Your advice would be appreciated