check up
Today I went for my yearly check up. With a big sigh of relief all good for another year. My problem is during treatment my husband was so supportive and in tune to my visits. Well now it is 3 years...
Forum Discussion
It's hard I know but we all went through a lot of wishing to be "back to normal". So did our partners probably! So not so surprising that now we do seem to be back to normal, they go back to the old patterns. Except we haven't really. We are either still coping with changes or we have embraced a new normal, that says we will never really stop thinking about cancer, and we sort of expect our partners to be sensitive to that too. Not sure what the long term answer is - my partner got very early bowel cancer diagnosed (3 years after me, excellent prognosis). No, that's NOT the answer but it did make him more sensitive - to his changes : ) - not necessarily mine! Short term, it's more telling I think. I know it would be nice if our partners didn't always need to be told, but ............