I have very recently met a woman with bowel Cancer. We are close and had expected this to develop into more than just friends. She has had chemo and expected the cancer to be gone or at least shrunk. At her appointment yesterday she was given the news that there is little change but hope it may improve in the coming weeks. She did not have the full treatment as her body had not dealt with it very well and had to stop. End of October and now waiting until January for her next consultation. She is strong and outwardly doing really well. I am not sure she had accepted it. Yesterday's news obviously sounds extremely more concerning and is very real. Inwardly I struggle to imagine how she is coping. We do not live together so I am not around her lots and feel she needs the love and comfort I am not there to give her.. She has lots of good friends though. No family. So difficult for me and people around her. I can not imagine how she is really dealing with this? She is very open to talk which is is really positive.
How do I support her? How do I deal with it myself. What can we expect from her situation. It feels very much How long is a piece of string. Sitting on a bomb not knowing if it's going to go off. I guess we have to take each day as it comes and enjoy the time we have with no idea how long that will be?
