Friend has cancer and says hasn't got long. Just struggling with it all as it's hard to talk to him. Tricky to explain things. Hope this site will help with me helping him .
A warm welcome to our forum. I am so sorry to hear about your friend it must be heart-breaking for you and it can be hard to find the right words to support your friend through this difficult time.
On our website, you will find a section for friends, family and caregivers with helpful tips on what to say and how to support someone with cancer. You can read more on this here.
Many of our forum members will have been in a similar position to you and I hope they will be along shortly to share their experiences with you and how they themselves coped when a friend has been diagnosed with terminal cancer.
Sorry to hear about your friend, if you don't mind me asking how long have they been given?
I lost my brother 4 years ago and then was diagnosed last year myself.
Cancer is a *** and doesn't care about any of us.
The best advice that I can give you is be there for you friend and be yourself.
I spent as much time as I could with my brother and treated him as my brother and not a cancer patient. If he was being an *** I would tell him but at the same time I would help him the best I could.
Be there for your friend laugh, cry and chat together, just be there and be yourself.
Hi . Thankyou for reply, really appreciate it. Sorry to hear about your brother. I hope ur coping (if that makes sense)? Do you talk to anyone about it?
I'm very lucky to have a very supportive wife who I have talked with. I have also had therapy which was good to unload. I'm not sad anymore I just enjoy my memories of my brother. I miss him like crazy but he didn't want me to be sad so I won't be for him.
Do you have someone to talk to and unload? Has you friend made any request for when there gone? I know it's a *** subject to talk about, but I found that the more that I talked about it the easier it became.
