Chemotherapy

My husband was diagnosed with diffuse large B cell lymphoma stage 4 last week and although he's only 55 he seems to have no fight in him at all he's due to start chemotherapy next Friday and I've been trying to convince him that it's the right option I know no matter what I would like him to do it's his choice I'm just struggling to get him to see it's better to at least try it his consultant is phoning on Monday morning with the results of his pet scan but it's taken 8 months just to get to a diagnosis so I can understand his reluctance to agree I suppose I just need to vent we have a 10 yr old daughter that's special needs and in a wheelchair full time so she's hard work on her own and now this it's all knocked me for six 

  • Hi,I'm so sorry to hear the position you are in, it must be so hard especially with the added needs of a child needing extra care. 
    My partner too has been waiting for a diagnosis since November really. We just went along with all the different scans and at no point thought it would ever get to the diagnosis of stage 4. 
    I'm lucky that my partner wants to have everything he can treatment wise . When I look at him even now he had lost so much weight after the resection op and aged so much in just a week. I feel knocked for six too. Any sleep I do get is short and I wake up with a jolt and my heart sinking. 
    im trying to be stronger and I hope that you will too. 
    it's just difficult times with this virus too

    take care 

    lisa

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