Confused

Hi everyone, just wanted to see if anyone has had an experience like this.

My husband has stage 4 renal cancer in his lungs, just before Christmas his consultant phoned to say the treatment he was on wasn't working on one of the multiple tumors in his lungs and that it had grown to the point it was blocking his lower right bronchius tube, in Jan he went to have a bronchoscopy and the following day he had a heart attack. Because of this they stopped all treatment and explained that because of the heart attack he was no longer a candidate for immunotherapy and that they wouldn't resume treatment for at least 3-6 months but that it was unlikely he would survive till then and gave him 6 weeks to live, he's been in and out of hospital since then with infections and last week the doctors in the hospital advised me to stop working to be at home with him. This week which is 6 weeks later we saw a different oncologist who has said they have decided to put him on a different treatment, it's not going to shrink his tumors it's just stop them from growing any more, we have 2 young children in  the house who I've done my best to comfort and make feel better about the situation as we've watched their dad slowly deteriorate, there dad is now at a point that he can't go out and sleeps most of the time and even walking to the kitchen and back leaves him breathless, I'm confused as to what to do and feeling guilty because I just want my normal life back.

  • Hi,  my partner has secondary lung cancer which he had been told is terminal. He started off by having bone cancer which I gave up work to care for him. He got the all clear and then was told that he has secondary lung cancer which can't be cured.

    He has had chemotherapy which like your husband was told that it wouldn't shrink them but just slow the growth down a little bit. He was told that he would have 8 months left to live it has now been 9 months. 

    Our relationship wasn't great and we were going to split up then he developed cancer and I felt that I had to put my life into caring for him.

    I know people will say that I sound selfish because of what he is going through. 

    Like yourself I am confused.....I feel guilty for wanting to leave. He has good friends and family but I feel that I have to stay.

    I understand how you feel I really do. And until people are in the situation that we are in they just don't know how hard it is. 

    I know I probably haven't really helped but I just want you to know there are a lot of people in the same situation as us. 

    Xxxx