Stress

The old stress is back, my husband has a lump on his testicle which he has had an ultrasound for (and has told me about today) - the results describe it as a complex hypervascular mass.

My father has found out today that he has lesions on his pancreas - and they may be benign or premalignent, at this stage they cannot tell.

It feels like I have rewound four years when my husband was diagnosed with PCa, I find myself less panicky but more tired. In the last six months I have had my husband in the emergency room with a mysterious lump on his neck and was diagnosed with a rare lymphangioma which luckily went away and didn't recur. Then my dad suddenly got unstable angina and got a stent put in. Less than a month later then a suspected heart attack and four more stents. Then they thought he had an aortic dissection, luckily he didn't but the CT scan showed the funny focus on the pancreas. Over the last week my mother had atrial fibrillation. My mother in law has been in and out of hospital for the last four months with congestive heart issues.

It just it all too much sometimes. Today is one of those days. Sorry for ranting.

An

Post Edited (An38) : 5/13/2014 4:10:07 AM (GMT-6)

i know how you feel, hang in there and remember that stress is very dangerous for your health. I'm not one to talk, but it's important to find ways to cope with stress and potentially depression.

I just went through a prolonged situation and talking to my wife we realized that was going to become the norm in the coming years just because of the age of those around us.

Time to get some 'STRESS RELIEF' for yourself...

Visit your own Doc, & request some Prescription...

An, ranting is totally approved and one of the side benefits of HW membership!

Sorry you are going thru all of this right now...hopefully these issues will resolve themselves favorably.

All the best,

Jim

An,

I can so relate. Along with my husband dealing with this horrible disease, my mother is in the hospital too far for me to go to, as I can't leave home. Can I suggest a website that has been helpful to me? I should have posted this a long time ago on the caregiver's page, but for some reason haven't. It was started by Jean Fogelberg, who was married to singer Dan Fogelberg. He had Prostate Cancer. She is an amazing person, and it has a lot of good resources.

http://dontloseheart.org/

Take care, Susan

Thank you guys, I had tears in my eyes reading your replies. it it so good to be able to bring my troubles to such a place.

I found out today that my dad's pancreatic leison was much bigger than I thought. My sister who is a doctor in NY is driving herself silly trying to figure out the next course of action and what to say to my dad. The sad thing is that my dad was, in the last two weeks starting to feel as good as he has felt in a very long time. She is talking to him as I write this and I am bracing for the emotional fallout and the treatments to come.

Unfortunately my sister also does not like my husband's ultrasound report. She is going to show it to a urologist colleague at the hospital. Paul is as stoic as ever but is not keen on any kind of surgery on his testicle.

So I have spent the last hour researching hepartobiliary specialists and urologists who do radical orchidectomies.

I feel so helpless and so sorry for my poor sister who has to tell everyone the bad news. She needs to look after her own health, she has not slept for the last few nights and her jaw joints are starting to hurt as she must be grinding her cheeks.

I have had pelvic pain over the last month that has now got so bad I wake up and can't go back to sleep. I have finally made an appointment with a doctor to check it out.

I have attempted to make an appointment with a counsellor as I think I need support through this. I am so exhausted. Susan, I plan to read through the blog - hopefully it will give me ideas that can help me through this.

An