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Widowed pancreatic cancer

Lindaboi
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I lost my husband last week to pancreatic cancer just 12 weeks after being diagnosed. I'm only 36 and have 2 teenage sons who are missing the dad really badly. I have been emotional at times and then ok, i still feel numb and like this isn't real. My husband was received palliative care for the last 3 weeks of his life but had a trip to the hospital to get a stent put in so he could reciece chemo, unfortunately he took an infection and died a few days later. I was just wondering if anyone out there has been through similar and how did you cope.

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    Hi cg. I feel very similar to you with the treatment side of things. I feel we were robbed of my husband as he never got the chance for any treatment. He was originally going to get a Whipple operation In September which is the only thing that can potentially cure this disease and increase the survival rate to 24% for 5 years but a scan was done which showed it has spread to his liver so he couldn't get it done. My hope was lost at that point and palliative care was all we had. I am like you also with the sleeping thing, i wake up and just think of my husband because I miss him so much. Then I think of the last 12 weeks and how horrible it has been. I try to think of positive things but it's really hard at the moment.l. My husband loved Christmas time and to have it without him just breaks my heart. Thanks  

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    I lost my husband to prostate cancer on the 29th October I miss him so much I don't know what to do 

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