 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Being pregnant can make your hormones wacky and break downs are to be expected! This can be so difficult on caregivers that many will get assistance themselves with the anxiety meds. Being a caregiver is such a tough job! You have to be there for the patient, advocate for them and be their nurse while dealing with all the office politics that go along with it and watching someone you love suffer but doing it with a smile on your face and a strong facade. Definitely NOT an easy task at all.
Please seek out someone for your father to talk with. I will send you my number thru a PM. It really helps to talk with someone who has been there. Knowing fellow OC survivors is a great moral booster for patients. It doesnt help meeting other cancer survivors.... it needs to be OC survivors to really make a huge impact.
Best wishes!
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
