← Return to Colon cancer metastasized to lungs: Husband severely depressed

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@opheli

Hello, I am a fairly new member here. My husband was diagnosed with colon cancer about a year ago. He had chemo last winter and then surgery to remove a large tumor from his colon in April. In June a couple small spots showed up, one on his lung and one on the liver. His team decided to treat him with chemo first, to try to prevent further spread, and then treat what remains with radiation intervention. So he is currently four rounds into the chemo. He does not have the strong side effects that he had last winter, but he also had an ileostomy bag at that time. However, he does seem depressed at times, and I sometimes have difficult time handling it myself. In one of your posts, you mentioned wanting to leave, or just run away. I know that feeling, and it, or course comes with shameful feelings. Life changes so abruptly. Between Cancer and Covid it’s been quite the journey. I do have good friends and a counselor who was recommended to me b

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Oops, didn’t mean to send that. Sorry for errors! Anyway, I do have a counselor to speak with, and family support. But I just wanted to stop in and thank you all for your remarks. You never know when you are helping someone! Thank you. 🙂

So sorry you are having such a hard time!🥲Your wanting to run away is totally understandable! Do not feel bad about it. Having to deal with Covid on it’s own is overwhelming but to add cancer to the challenge is almost to much!🙄 and for your husband to face what he is facing must be horrendous poor man. You will go through this huge challenge as long as you face it together & hold each others hand go through it.
Mutual love & teamwork is of the essence here.
Best of luck
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Opheli, I'm so glad that you have support and a counselor. Does your husband recognize his depression? Is he also seeing someone?