Feeling low & lonely

I have been living with incurable, inoperable, metastatic stage 4 NSCLC for 2 years. I am fit & healthy despite my cancer & run 5-10 k 3 times a week depending on the weather! I love life - it's not the life I had planned or hoped for but it's life. It maybe that December is the month I received the devistating, life changing news & started my treatment is the reason for me to feel so down. Anyone else out there like me living with lung cancer?

  • Hi Averon 

    Welcome to the forum the club nobody wants to join,if you go to the top of your page to the blue bar and open search you can insert what you are looking for it will give you a list of people you can talk to, some been on years and alot longer than me I was diagnosed Feb 2016 put on palative care I've prostate cancer gone to lymph nodes spine ribs pelvis and a lung still having treatment and still fighting .

    Best wishes for Christmas

    Billy

  • Hi Billy

    Thanks for taking the time to reply. It's been quite a while since I've been on here & felt the need to reach out to people going through the same! My local Macmillan outreach centre has been closed since the 1st lockdown & I'm missing the interaction! 
     

    Best wishes

    Averon

  • Hello Averon,

                           reading your post all l can  say is that the Bulls where you live must come equiped with some very big horns,and my do you grasp them----much respect.It would seem that you are coping with your treatment and that it is working well for you,long may it continue to do so.Does it have a cumalative effect and have you managed to get the dose reduced over this period of time?

                                                                                                                        l find myself being happy to get December out of the way,and January sees the days start to stretch out with the promise of longer days,up here in the furthest northwest they fairly motor and by the third week you find yourself coming in at dark a good hour later.My belted galloways come in to be housed for winter in january so l get to spend more time and closer contact with them for the following 5 months, before they are turned out again to enjoy long summer days filled with a riot of lush grass and wildflower growth

                                              l hope you have a pleasant christmas,

                                                                                                            David