Hi, I'm 37 with two girls who are 17 and 11 and I've just found out that my Dad has bowel, liver and lung cancer. Still waiting to find out which stage.
It's a weird one because I've always known it's a possibility (both my Grandad's died of bowel cancer when I was a toddler) and as a family we've always talked about it. But for it actually happen is very overwhelming.
I feel just a bit numb and blindsided and not really sure what to do next. I've got to tell my kids which will be heart breaking because they lost their other Grandad two years ago because of cancer and now they have to go through it again.
So far I've been met with a lot of facts, and 'realism' which is good because I'm a realist. But it's all so much and I feel exhausted.
All I keep thinking about is 'the last time'. This could be the last time at xmas, this could be last birthday, this could be the last etc etc...
I don't know whether to feel any hope or not of treatment because of the spread.
Just yeah, don't know what else to say.