Stressed out about my dad

[WigWamBam]

I'm sorry to be here feeling sorry for myself again, but my dad has just been diagnosed with cancer, and I feel as if the world has stopped turning. My depression has been much better with the ads, but today I've just felt so bleak and stressed out, and I had a panic attack on the way back from taking my dd to nursery, which has really shaken me up. I've never had one before and I was so scared.

I've always tended to take other people's problems on myself, and I think this is what I'm doing, but I'm so scared of what's going to happen that I can't think straight. I don't even know what I'm frightened of, it's not me with the illness and apparently the prognosis is reasonably good, but it's hit me really hard.

WigWamBam, thinking of you all. It all sounds very positive. Have everything crossed for you all x

Thanks for asking girls. Op went OK on Monday and he came home yesterday. He's still groggy and sore, but otherwise fine. He has another appointment in two weeks for the biopsy results, they took some of the surrounding tissue too to check whether there has been any spread to the lymph nodes, although they believe that the cancer was contained. When we have the biopsy results we'll know what the next step is and what chemo or radiotherapy he will need.

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Wig Wam - have you contacted BACUo? (Someone mentioned them further down the thread) - they are wonderful! (my mum had bowel cancer and there were times when they were the only people she felt she could talk to...) Thinking of you