Welcome to OCF! Have you been treated at a cancer center with oncologists? If so there should be many other services available to cancer patients. Most cancer treatment facilities have things like speech therapy, physical therapy, nutritionists, etc to help the many areas cancer patients need help with. Ive seen patients do speech therapy and have remarkable improvements in their enunciation and go from someone who was very difficult to understand to having clear and easy to understand speech. The treatment facility should have a pain management person to help patients who are in alot of pain as well as therapists to help patients deal with a potentially life threatening diagnosis.

Having a recurrence is every cancer survivors greatest fear!!! I was among those patients who like you feared recurrences. I had such an enormous fear so much so that I wouldnt even take a peek at the recurrence section of our OCF forum. It took me a long time to fully understand the whole picture. This is something completely out of your control. No amount of worrying will ever change if you will or wont have a recurrence. The majority of OC patients will NOT have a recurrence. You could ask at your treatment center about therapists you could talk to who treat cancer patients so they understand what you are going thru. Many OC patients will need some help to get thru their diagnosis, treatment and recovery to handle it mentally. Its very common for them to need anxiety meds to help get them thru some dark days. This is so prevalent that many caregivers need anxiety meds and therapy as well. Cancer is HARD!!!! The diagnosis stuns and can make your head spin which gets the "what ifs" started. You arent alone with this, we all have been there and gone thru this. Now that you have discovered our site, we will do our best to help you. We're all n this together

Hope this helps!