Give yourself a break
Over a year ago, my wife started chemotherapy. it’s so important to look after yourself while she is receiving treatment. Remember to give yourself a break and listen to your body. Sleep, eat ,go for walks, run and navigate day by day. Just show up and be her hero, hold her hand, make her laugh, don’t just put your head down and go on your phone worrying about what you can’t control. When your partner gets sick, parenting and relationships are changed in a unique way. It sure gets lonely sometimes, as well as hard. Try to counter your negative thoughts. CRY it helps! I remember having a good cry many times when I came home from hospital with the kids. It’s important to show your emotions and not lock them away. It’s normal
Many friends and family call and message, healthy, busy people who envelop us in their hearts and remind us how our lives have changed overnight. Our jobs and the identities they once gave us changed over night.
My job now is to keep her strong and find a new normal for the children. Nurses, and doctors try and help us helps us to forget, for a few moments, why we are a part of their world. Feel grateful. Many people in the chemo room will never recover.
To those going through it, I wish I could give you all the strength you need and I hope it’s as easy as it can be. To those who’s chemotherapy quest never ends, you are true hero’s for standing by her side. To those whose journey has come to an end, my heart breaks for every post I read. I’m wish you never had to endure what you went through.
The challenges we all have are unique and one is not worse than the other, they all rubbish!
If there is anything I can help any of you with, please reach out. You are not in this fight alone.
By sharing this i know that I am not alone, I know that someone is listening. I suppose I am just saying that if you are not having a good day then please share it, don't dwell on it nor suffer in silence. Share it and someone will always be there for you.
Take care all.
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