Hello
I was recently diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer. The news has as most of you know, is a life changing event. I am only 46 and have a wife and three children 9 - 14. The news and the treatment I can handle fairly well. It is the effect this has on the family that is tearing me up. I believe in telling the kids everything (kind of hard not to they can see that my wife and I are upset), After the first notification we cried then started to get onn with the procedures. It hit me one day that the kids were having a hard time. While eating out after church, I was jocking with my older son about teaching him to drive soon, when my 9 year old daughter started to cry. Whn asked what was wrong she asked if I would be around to teach her to drive. I could not help but cry, not for me but for her. Thinking about them with out a father is the hardest thing to deal with.
I believe that my long term prognosis is good but it is hard to convey that to the kids. Anyone have any ideas or things that have worked in your family?
Robert W.