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Sharing and looking for advice Stage 4C Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal Cancer | Last Active: Aug 20, 2023 | Replies (7)Comment receiving replies
Thanks for the reply and the kind words and support. We initially met with the chief of surgery for Sharp in Southern California. We have been told surgery is not an option at all due to the extensiveness of the tumors in the other areas. Left side does seem to be better but with MSS and KRAS, not so much. She is now down 55lbs from January of this year and seeing her go through it without knowing if it is working yet makes it very hard for her to stay positive.
With the anemia, she wasn't very active before treatment but she could at least walk around the house and do a few things. Even that is gone now. When she gets really down, she says things like "I don't know if I can take this again", knowing the side effects will get worse as treatment goes on. I am keeping her spirits up as best I can and sounding like a broken record "it's f'n hard".
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Sorry, me again, last comment - I called my family and his family to help boost the morale. We have a rotation, which is the best I can do. I hear you, it's hard to keep spouse spirits up. However, this is the time to call in a few favours. For my hubby, my mom stayed a couple of weeks with us and the two of them started playing game show night with wheel and jeopardy every night. Trying to guess the answers - the funnier your answer the funnier it really is! Even though my mom went back home, I've picked up this torch nightly.... Speaking of which, it's almost that time 🙂
I also recommend barrage of comedy movies, stand up comedy shows (you can make it like a date night,) bedside puzzles that she can do on a bedside table is she is feeling up to it.