Hello 

Sending you my best wishes x

I'm being monitored so a bit different, but anything pancreatic related is so scary. 

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Hi Sarah,

This is very upsetting news and im really sorry to you and your family are having to deal with this. Hopefully you are supporting each other at this time although i know it can be very hard and put a tremendous strain on yourselves.

You are right the outlook for pancreatic cancer is typically very poor but you have a couple of things going for you. You are young for the age of diagnosis and it seems to have been detected at an earlier stage. AFAIK most people diagnosed with pancreatic cancer are in their 80s and its almost always detected at stage IV where there is very little that can be done.

I know its a hard task but please try to keep a positive frame of mind if you can and keep looking forward, you are definitely strong enough to deal with this especially with your family beside you. I think communicating with your family and letting them help you is really important even though its so hard to do.

Please take care and definitely make use of the forum it can be a much easier way to vent then with people offline

Hi Sarah, 

That's horrible news to get and it's ok to panic and lash out and the best therapy of all to cry. Don't keep it in. I hope your boyfriend lets you off with pushing him away as you'll need his support.

Only natural your head's all over the place right now and it's completely understandable, you've just had a big shock. But you'll find you learn to cope better day by day and the feelings of panic will lessen. You feel more in control once on treatment, I call it fighting back. And they'll want you starting chemotherapy as soon as possible. Lots of different chemo drugs available so I can't help with what you'll be on. 

The best thing I'd say you can do meantime is getting outside and walking. It's great for stress and somehow being outside is more calming. The worst thing you can do is staying in googling everything about it, that just adds to your stress and you really don't need that right now. 

Let the hospital get on with sorting out your treatment plan and you concentrate on you please and trying to process the shock. And telling your other children. And get lots of hugs if you like them, they help too. 

Good luck Sarah and keep posting here for support but take it one step at a time. 

Thank you, I talked more to my mum today and told about my fear of leaving my kids and partner. She was very supportive, it's late at night I feel alone and worried about what is to come lots of love to you  

Thanks for your reply, just knowing someone understands makes it a little better. 

Lots of love