Struggling with hope.

The cruelest thing I’ve found with cancer currently is the cruel hope it gives us from time to time. My dad was told twice he was clear from bladder cancer from chemo, radiotherapy to a full bladder removal. but yet again in June we was told a new aggressive Tumor has formed its inoperable and incurable and my dad has 6-9 months to live like that, boom done. We have fought for more treatment as dads currently okay, gaining weight, getting fitter by the day so he’s currently on imnutherphy (has anyone experienced this??) the side affects are less harsh than chemo and bar fatigue and the runs he is dealing with it all great and having a ‘’normal life’’ yet this hadent changed the time line I’m so confused? The oncologist said a very very very small amount of people act amazing to the therapy and gain a few short years! ..... so *** it’s giving me hope again?? I mean should I hope all the positive signs are there? But I just can’t open my heart up to it again? Sounds so selfish but it’s so bloody hard watching your parent die I’m only in my 20’s (I’m sure in hurts at any age I’m sorry!) but I feel robbed! It’s such a mix emotion I don’t even now what I’m getting to only that I’m struggling with it all I’m struggling to accept there could maybe be hope again as every time I’ve let myself believe I’ve got further than Christmas with him it back fires on me! Erughhhh. Sorry xx

  • Hi there ...

    So sorry your going through this heartbraking time at the moment... cancer and life are crule ...

    But you know the one word we all hold on to with cancer, is hope ... we live every day with it .. for without hope there's nothing .. 

    My mum died suddenly from a heart attack and had no chance to even say those things like I was so proud to be her daughter... she was just gone with no warning ... as hard as it is, you have that chance I never got .. there was no hope, she'd gone .. so every day you get, take it as a bonus .. don't look ahead ..live in the day and tell them all what's in your heart .. share tears and make a lifetime of memories in the time you have ...I was in my 30s when I lost both mine ... what I'd have given for even just an hour ...

    My heart goes out to you ... it's one of the hardest things we will ever go through ... Chrissie x 

  • I’m so sorry to read about your mum also. It sounds utterly heartbreaking never mind living it. And to come to this forum and give hope to people struggle in the stage behind you, takes some doing. Thankyou. 

    I am telling my dad things that I never thought we’d express to each other he knows how loved and cherished he is I’m grateful for that. But hope’s scaring me, I think it’s self preservation in a way. If that makes any sense.

    thankyou again. 

  • I know .... this cancer wants you to feel scared .. it wants you to give up  HOPE ... then it's strong ..  then it can make you a victim too ... by taking away as much time as you have with him, and ruining every thought every day ...

    I know, because that's what I'm doing sinse my diagnosis and masectomy with a grade 3 breast cancer .... I could stop having hope .. and wait to go .. or I can fill every day .. everyday I find something to smile about .. every day I wake up, l look up, and say "yep still here" and smile ... and everyday with my son and grandkids (in pic) is a little mirical ... and if I go tomorrow... I made every day count ..

    So come on lass .. turn this time on its head ..l my little niece was 10 months when her 28 year old daddy died ... she never knew him .. only what we tell her, and our memories ... she has none of her own .. so you can do this .. you are braver then you know ... live in the day like I do .. then no day is waisted .. and then we stick two fingers up to cancer ..  Chrissie x