My cancer was discovered in April 2000 and in its final stages.The doctors did not give me too much time to be around and told me to get my paper work all in order.27 major operations, which included an overdose of radiation, a burst ulcer (peritonites) and more complications did not deter me to live. I am alive but the side effects are boggling. My food and wind passage are both closed and cannot be reconstructed. I breathe through a stoma (a hole) in my throat and a tube attached to my stomach. I have not even tasted a sip of water in the last 5+ years! Being the eldest in the family I am expected to be the bread winner and have the responsibility of looking after my widowed mother,a spinster old aunt, my wife and two teenaged sons and do so.I am physically very fit.I work 14 hours a day (my job which I really enjoy) needs me to do the same. I get so exhausted at times that I wish I had died. Any answers to the stress I am going through as my doctors are scared this will kill me.
2006-06-13
09:32:35
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