Please Help this NEW DUer [View All]

[Eloriel]

who isn't able to start a new thread herself yet. This is what Whimsy posted in the DU Spiritual Emergency ToolKit thread:

Hello Everyone! I am one day old on this site. I was directed to it by someone who knows I am in distress. My husband of 34 yrs. has had cancer for 11 yrs. and after a stem-cell transplant, his non-Hodgkin's lymphoma has returned. I do not know how to find the strength within to be a grown-up about this. I keep asking him to reassure me and that is ass-backwards I know. How do you deal with the illness of the person you most love in this world and stay positive and strong? The prognosis is iffy - this disease has remissions and relapses although is usually utlimately fatal. Can anyone send me advice,thoughts,prayers? Thank you so much!

She also PMd me and I offered to start a thread for her. I hope you will offer some words of comfort and advice. In addition, in response to her PM to me, I suggested she take a look at the very thread she posted to and see if there aren't some things in it that can help her too/in the meantime.

Thanks in advance for your participation in this thread.