Just wanted to get some sort of ideas as to how some of you balanced your work and other everyday activities with your loved ones cancer treatment. We really can't afford for me not to work during all of this and the place where Steve and I work is about 60 miles from the cancer treatment center. We are in a real dilema. The cancer center is giving us a fully furnished apartment across the street from the hospital but I am not willing to let Steve stay there alone. So I will make the long commute everyday if I have to. Do you think he will be strong enough to walk across the street following treatment especially after treatments progress? It's so hard because I want to be with him every waking moment just in case he needs me, but reallistically I can't be. We still need to earn a living. Just wondered how some of you balanced your lives during treatment.

Michelle


Michelle, wife & caregiver of Steve/T1N1M0 right lateral tongue cancer/Surgery 8-3-06/Started treatment 9-13-06 -- IMRT x30 Plus 3 sessions carboplatin