You have said it well, the time before treatment is difficult at best. So many questions, so little time to make the best decisions possible about treatment choices. This early stage is an emotional challenge which you have endured and are ready to move on from. Each of you is now on the path to treatment and eventual recovery. A new and different challenge awaits you, and this one is physical as well as emotional. While difficult, it is knowable, understandable, and most importantly, it has a point of termination which eventually comes. Focus on getting through each day, fight only the battles of that day, and let the future issues and battles wait their turn. Everything one day at a time. If you must think of the future, think of that time when this is in your past and you are both healthy and well again. Attempt not to worry about the next treatment, the next stage, the next obstacle. They will come and go, and in time you will be finished. Trust that in the end you will prevail, and that a normal life awaits you once again. This is just one more challenge in your life, not the last one.

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