Hello & thank you for the add.
I am a 64 year old carer to my wife (61) who has incurable cancer.
She is receiving palliative treatment but is finding it very tough going and apart from the chemo also contracted several infections which necessitated some emergency treatment.
All therapy is currently suspended for at least 3 months whilst she gets her strength back as she would not be able to cope with the next stage (which is radiotherapy) right now.
She will have another scan in 6 weeks and then a review in 8 weeks to decide where we go from there.
This is not a rant or a whinge; just an introduction as we just get on with things, doing what we can when we can.
Interestingly we also seem to be different to most on here in that we cope better, together, on our own. (If that makes sense.) I have no separate personal social life and I am retired and I'm quite happy like that apart from just the very occasional wish to be able to get out on my own with my cameras and take some photographs.
No, my problem is that sometimes I resent family coming to visit and stay with us.
I should not resent their presence, I love them and I understand that they need to make their memories but sometimes it does irritate when they try, for all the best motives, to encourage my wife to eat things that she does not like to do and do things she does not want to try to do.
I am a 64 year old carer to my wife (61) who has incurable cancer.
She is receiving palliative treatment but is finding it very tough going and apart from the chemo also contracted several infections which necessitated some emergency treatment.
All therapy is currently suspended for at least 3 months whilst she gets her strength back as she would not be able to cope with the next stage (which is radiotherapy) right now.
She will have another scan in 6 weeks and then a review in 8 weeks to decide where we go from there.
This is not a rant or a whinge; just an introduction as we just get on with things, doing what we can when we can.
Interestingly we also seem to be different to most on here in that we cope better, together, on our own. (If that makes sense.) I have no separate personal social life and I am retired and I'm quite happy like that apart from just the very occasional wish to be able to get out on my own with my cameras and take some photographs.
No, my problem is that sometimes I resent family coming to visit and stay with us.
I should not resent their presence, I love them and I understand that they need to make their memories but sometimes it does irritate when they try, for all the best motives, to encourage my wife to eat things that she does not like to do and do things she does not want to try to do.