Newly Diagnosed oesophageal cancer

I’m quite a stoical person, so accepted the diagnosis with the attitude that (I’ll beat this), then came the stage of uncle Google research, quite scary, my wife was away on holiday at the time, so I had to blatantly lie during our video calls, and say I was fine, no problems here, I was more nervous about telling her when she returned, than the diagnosis.Then came the the thoughts, how do I tell my children, grandchildren,what effect will it have on them ? Stay strong everyone,big hugs to all fellow sufferers, regards Alan

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  • Took a while to get any information from my PET scan, left phone numbers etc, eventually had an appointment a week ago, expecting to go and be told, I needed surgery etc, only to be told, surgery was out of the question and I was terminal, I looked over at my wife and could see the shock on her face, seeing the Oncologist tommorow, we left the hospital in a daze, surely as good practice a counsellor should be available there and then, I had no symptoms apart from a little pain,gall bladder area, no choice now but to battle on, love and big hugs to all