I know what being a patient is like. I know the ups and downs, the highs and lows. I know what I think and how I feel. I know and understand things that only a cancer patient could relate with and others can only sympathize.

What I do not know is what it is like being a caregiver. I am sure the stress level is high. But how does all of this make you feel? Do you have feelings of being alone or is it just a big fear of not being able to do more than the Docs?

Before I got O/C, my mom got breast cancer. I kept telling her all would be fine. After surgery, it was all fine. But she kept telling me I did not understand. She was very frustrated with me and I with her as well. AND NOW.......I had to applogize to her. She was right. I was not being the CG I needed to be. Now I am. But how do you all feel during times like the ones you are now facing and how do you all cope, other than OCF?

I only ask this because I know it has to be eaqually as hard but in a different way. As a one who has O/C I merly want to try to understand all sides of it.

Thanks,

John