Family and caregivers

Share your insights on how to provide the "right" care and support. Discuss your changing role and where to find support for the family or caregiver.

Discussions

Help for my friend....

• By MomsDaughter_NC · New reply May 23, 2013
• 2 replies
• Hello good people. I found the Inspire website over a year ago when my mother was diagnosed with bladder cancer. Mom was 86 at the time and had muscle invasive bladder cancer, but otherwise lead a very ...

Unthinking (aka stupid) comments

• By Sft · New reply May 21, 2013
• 110 replies
• Just called my mum who was in tears because one of her carers mentioned that (my mum) 'used to very active, didn't you'. My 54 yr old mum has to permanently use a wheelchair now thanks to spine mets ...

divorce

• By angelvis · New reply May 21, 2013
• 35 replies
• I am finished up on treatments and being monitored closely now. I am struggling with my husband not understanding all my changes phyically and emotionally. Has anyone else gone through the same struggles ...

New to Community

• By KDS9601 · New reply May 18, 2013
• 3 replies
• My mother was recently diagnosed with Stage IV recurring breast cancer (April was her 14 year anniversary). It was found in the bone and liver. She had to have hip surgery to get a titanium rod in her ...

Advice re family issue

• By Sft · New reply May 6, 2013
• 17 replies
• I am looking for advice on how best to tackle a family problem that has been niggling away at me for a couple of years now. To cut a long story short, my mum was diagnosed with bc mets in 2011 and basically ...

masectomy

• By zoomdots · New reply April 25, 2013
• 8 replies
• need of persons who will be willing to ask me how can i help? there are so many suggestions from the persons who seem to want to assist in the recovery however i am overwhelmed by the urgency of their ...

Next steps

• By Miran · New reply April 24, 2013
• 12 replies
• Hi all, My Mother has stage 3 c breast cancer and was on 12 weeks of Taxol. She did well, but the node in her neck has gotten only a little smaller. Because of the neck node size, the recommendation is ...

Liver function

• By Sft · New reply April 19, 2013
• 13 replies
• Hi All - my mum has bc with mets to bone (left pelvis and one of spinal discs compressed by cancer, so although she can stand up and manoeuvre herself she can no longer walk more than a few yards with ...

Mom has her wings

• By Lisa58 · New reply March 28, 2013
• 28 replies
• Well Mom has gotten her wings. It was such a peaceful passage and she left us in her own home with all of us there. She was such a strong lady and determined that after her cancer spread to the bone marrow ...

A Mothers Love

• By jumbojaime · New reply March 19, 2013
• 19 replies
• My name is Jaime and i am the daughter of Jumpforjoy. I joined this site 2 weeks ago at the advice of my mom who has stage 4 breast cancer. For the past 2 weeks I have just been a silent bystander. I ...

Just wondering Er+/-PR+/-;Her +/-;Triple Neg

• By BeatC · New reply February 28, 2013
• 2 replies
• I am not here to stoke fear or anxiety,but simply to discuss and learn. I know each and every cancer should be looked at individually.Targeted drug discoveries are being made at a much faster pace thanks ...

Feeling sad today

• By Sft · New reply February 19, 2013
• 3 replies
• It's been a long time since I cried about my mum's cancer but I'm sitting in my office now struggling not to cry and having a bit of a pity party. I am trying to be pragmatic about my mum's situation ...

Help me help you!

• By graycat11 · New reply February 11, 2013
• 29 replies
• My MIL was diagnosed with rectal cancer about 5 years ago. While they were examining her they also found that she had breast cancer. HRPR+ HER2- (she suspected she had both for about a year and never ...

The love of my life has just DX'd as stage four MBC

• By keithw · New reply December 22, 2012
• 44 replies
• It started out with back pain in feb this year, by september we knew there was a tumor eating her L3 lumbar. Two days after surgery we found out it was a breast cancer that had gone to her spine. That ...

Heart Broken

• By Ktigglet · New reply December 14, 2012
• 24 replies
• I really do not know how to handle this. My 20 year old daughter and i have always has issues, she feels I was not a good mother, I was mean to her, said mean things to her and so on. The words were said ...

How do I get through this?

• By LisaD33 · New reply December 10, 2012
• 90 replies
• Hello all; My mom has Stage IV Triple Negative Breast Cancer. The recurrence started in a node and progressed to pleural effusion and now is in and under the skin on her whole right chest, rib and abdomen ...

Aunt is Suffering with Breast cancer metastasised to Bone and Liver

• By Ash_Laksh · New reply December 8, 2012
• 13 replies
• Hello All, It is my first post ever in the community but lot of your posts are so truely inspiring and heart touching. My Aunt is of 37yr old and in Sep-2012 complained of back pain had the MRI scan where ...

How many women have been left by their husbands Breastless but Breathless,

• By Sunchaiser · New reply November 24, 2012
• 20 replies
• How many women have been left by their husbands Breastless but Breathless, made to feel worthless and left disabled and refered to as crazy ...

Scared and confused

• By Graham75 · New reply November 19, 2012
• 5 replies
• Hi all, I'm new here. My best friend has ov cancer and she's having a real tough time of things this week and she said she was thinking of stopping treatment. It got me pretty upset because she's usually ...

Husband is at peace....

• By faithfulwife · New reply November 17, 2012
• 57 replies
• My husband passed away early Monday morning when I walked out of his room to say good night to some friends. When I came back in the room, he was gone. My heart is heavy beyond measure today. Thanks for ...

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