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How to handle when spouse has cancer, is in pain and isn’t active?
Cancer | Last Active: Sep 28, 2025 | Replies (17)Comment receiving replies
That's fully understandable. There's another side you can break through to where you both *do* think and talk about it, let yourselves experience the emotional pain (which might not be as bad as what you fear), and then find peace and learn to live with the new situation, but that's a tough transition, and you can't force it right away.
Best of luck in a difficult situation.
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It's a difficult situation because the cancer is slow growing. We don't know if the pain he is experiencing is cancer or the abdominal wall due to his ileostomy. Fortunately, Tylenol is helping with the pain. Day by day for both of us.