Sorry to hear about the diagnosis. In my own experience, the sleepless nights and worry lessened with time. Once I had the diagnosis, my mind switched over from worry to just simply trusting the doctors, nurses & other staff at the cancer center & believing that they're professionals & will do the best they can to fix me up. Once I resigned myself to the fact that there's really no benefit to me worrying about it, there's nothing I can personally do about it now, and that the only people that will make it better are already doing what they can, I started being able to sleep again. I was reasonably lucky to get my treatment fairly quickly.

As business owners, I suppose you'll feel the need to get back to it as quickly as possible. I'm just a regular old grunt working for someone else, but was lucky enough to have a fairly substantial short term disability coverage at work, and was off for a bit under four months with pay. How long your husband will be out of commission will probably depend on what they end up doing with him in terms of treatment.