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A cancer diagnosis is a scary and devastating. I was terrified when it happened to me in 2014. "Don't get ahead of yourself." was good advice. You should not have to seek out specialists. I agree with the others: your primary doctor should be referring you to the specialists. Once you get to the Cancer Care area of your hospital, mine was MDAnderson, you should be assigned a nurse navigator. One thing that MDA offered that helped me mentally was Laugh Yoga. I encourage you to look at the programs that help your mental health, too.
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Yes, the cancer center offered it. We, patients, about 25 of us, sat in a circle. We were instructed to look at our neighbor and laugh. They were instructed to laugh back. Then, you'd turn to you other neighbor. In another exercise, you were asked to repeat after the instructor, "Ha, Ha, Ha." in a loud voice. I think we took turns with our neighbor after that. There were several versions of this laugh. So, laughing on cue was the objective. It led to natural laughing and lifted our moods.
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Can you please explain laugh yoga? 😂