Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 2,671 | What great suggestions you've had above! You really do have to take care of yourself because if not you won't be in any kind of shape to continue helping your husband. My son also had a "difficult" period and I became so frustrated because he wasn't taking suggestions and ideas I had learned here or things the doctor had told him to do. So I finally put my "nurse from Hell hat on" and told him that I was doing everything I possibly could to help him survive but that if we were going to make it, he really needed to help me out a little. I just could not do it alone! I did raise my voice a bit (I'm also normally "sweet") and maybe that's what impressed him because things started to change for the better. Things will get better for you and your husband, too. Hang in there . . . and do something nice for yourself!
Anne-Marie CG to son, Paul (age 33, non-smoker) SCC Stage 2, Surgery 9/21/06, 1/6 tongue Rt.side removed, +48 lymph nodes neck. IMRTx28 completed 12/19/06. CT scan 7/8/10 Cancer-free! ("spot" on lung from scar tissue related to Pneumonia.)
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