Frightened and overwhelmed


my emotions and moods are all over the place, i dunno how i truly feel from one hour to the next. Snapping at hubby one min then needing hugs from him and crying my eyes out, then angry at the card ive been dealt then despondent, then......, then.........., u get my drift.
He deals with things differently to me and can't understand why I'm so convinced it will be bad news on staging, I prepare for the worst and if it's not it's a bonus. He's a deal with it when it happens kinda guy, it's causing tension coz I feel he's carrying on like nothings changed but to me EVERYTHING has changed.
Every single innocent thought seems to be taken over by cancer thoughts, i admired a blossom tree today then immediately wondered how many more spring seasons i will see. I feel like cancer is consuming me mentally as well as physically. Any future I thought I had seems to have been cast into doubt. I went through something similar after my heart attacks aged 40 and 41, aged 46 my life had got back on track, I've been back at work 12 months and felt like life was good but here I go again feeling uncertain about a future. Hoping I'll cope better once I have staging and an action plan. 

 

  • Hi ya ...

    Oh hunny ... most if not all felt just like that on being diagnosed. . It goes from planning our futures in our heads... then cancer taps us on the shoulder ... and all we see is a huge question mark ... your deff not alone ... looking back on my cancer journey,  the hardest part is where your at now ... scared, confused, angry... 

    But please hold on to that hubby of yours , he will get you through ... if he "lost it" you'd both run round like headless chickens. .. and that won't help you ... you need that strong shoulder to lean on ...

    When we were "loosing it" my daughter in law sat us down and said no more panicking ... no more what ifs.... no more looking to far ahead ... well take every problem as and when it comes up. . And well do it together ... and we all calmed down, and I got a pair of vertual boxing gloves .... put them on and got in the ring. .. when your ready, get yours on ... there's lots of us in there ... all with one thing in common. .. kicking cancers butt ....

    I had a grade 3 breast cancer... l thought I'd be lucky to see Christmas. . That was 2017 ... but here I am chatting to you ... you took those heart attacks and came through against the odds ... you can do this ... treatments have come a long way ... there's lots of us here, all together trying to knock it out ...

    Sending you a vertual hug. .. Chrissie xx

  • I split up with my partner of 9 years in November 18, we were engaged; then in January 19 I was diagnosed with a grade 3 brain tumour.  My break up didn’t particularly end well (he ended it) I am still very much in love with him. I got back in touch with him a few weeks after diagnosis to tell him to which he became very upset. I really want him back as my partner but he is struggling with this because his feelings have changed but on the reverse he wants to help me lead a normal life as far as he can.  My future is not looking too good but I want to grab every happy moment I possibly can with him, this includes being sexually active with him..... some might say he is having his cake and eating it without all the emotional stuff attached but for me he is all I have known for the past 9 years and haven’t the energy to start looking for another man, plus I don’t want to as I still love him.  I am questioning myself as to whether I am being selfish by not letting him move on but scared about going through treatment etc on my own.  Emotionally I am all over the place but selfishly I want to lead as much of a normal life as I can with him, including being able to lean on him and for him to attend appointments etc.  I don’t know what the future holds or for how long but is it wrong to want to feel wanted and sexually attractive  with the man who ended our relationship? HELP

  • Many thanks to u for such a lovely reply. I was back at work yesterday and today and tbh it was a relief to be 'normal' for a few hours and too busy to have cancer invading every thought. Things are moving fast, blood tests this morning, MRI mammogram tomorrow then back to the consultant for results Thursday next week. At least then I'll have the full picture. 

  • You just have to do whatever will make u happy and help u cope.

  • Hi there ...

    Be thinking of you tomoz ... let us know how it goes ... Chrissie xx