Always with you......

By Rob49er

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Cancer that doesn't leave

Cancer, once diagnosed is always with you, lurking in the background of everyday life and sometimes it nudges you, reminding you that this sinister presence is there. Since diagnosis and chemotherapy 4 years ago, cancer has taken so much from me. Fitness, work, and any kind of intimacy with my wife. It's relentless.

Cancer in the eye

And now, after an Iritis eye infection doctor's have discovered a cancerous tumor in my eye. Soo on Monday I'm traveling to Liverpool University Hospital, the Ocular Oncology cancer clinic and I've been told to expect to be admitted for treatment. So, once again our lives have been turned upside down by cancer, it does make us wonder what we've done to deserve this awful diagnosis. Hopefully, I'll keep you updated, let's hope there's a good outcome.

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Sue Franke Moderator & Contributor
I'm so sorry for your recent cancer and the way it is once again turning your life and your family up-side-down. I don't think you've done anything to deserve this. Cancer picks on who it will pick on regardless of who we are or how we have lived our lives. We've kind of been trying to figure out the same thing. My husband is a stage 4 prostate cancer survivor, had stage 0 bladder cancer, this year my daughter has been through hell being treated for stage 2 breast cancer and my second surgery for stage 1 breast cancer is this week, just diagnosed a couple months ago. What did we do to deserve three cancers in our family of five (not including grandchildren who thank God, are healthy). I think the answer is we haven't done anything. It just happened. And we just deal with it just as you are. Best wishes to you and your family as you move this this latest diagnosis. 
1. Rob49er Member
 <inline-mention username="Sue Franke" user-id="4506969"/> oh good grief, that's awful, I'm so sorry to read that you've been going through such adversity. Some people have absolutely no idea what having cancer does to sufferers and their families. You must be an incredibly strong person to be dealing with all this, which as you rightly say, is so unfair and so difficult. I've hated what it's done to my wife, at times she's so stressed, I too have stage 4 prostate cancer, diagnosed in 2017 with widespread mets and its been a difficult journey, not least because of what the hormone therapy injections do , as I'm sure you understand. The good news here is that they've treated my eye and all is seemingly good but I was called in to the hospital last week for an urgent head MRI scan and won't know any results for another week. So more anxiety and stress awaiting that call or summons to the cancer clinic. May I ask how your husband is doing? I wish you all the very best and thank you for responding to my post. Regards Robert Parsons