we have just found out that my dads cancer is terminal and he most likely has 6 months left, with a maximum of 12 months. This has made me so sad and I wish the world would just stop so I could focus just on him and preparing myself...

We found out that my mother had got bowel cancer two to three months ago. It hasn't been easy on all of us and I dont know how to cope with it because I have still got school and I want to make sure my friends are all happy....

My parents are arguing and it isn’t doing well for my mother’s health, she has breast cancer. If she continues to be stressed she may end up in hospital within the next 23 hours. What can I do??

Hey all! I'm Cara, one of the staff from the Online crew... I'm new around here :) I've been having a look at the awesome chats on Canteen Connect and noticing that heaps of you mention your love of animals. Aaaand it got me thinking - pets can be...

It has just been over a year since my beautiful mum passed away after a few short months of being sick. It is now just me, my dad and my younger brother who suffers from cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities. I am a few hours from home for my...

So I have done nothing but been in and out of the hospital theses holidays, today I went to the beach and it was my dogs first time, How existing! Also I'm not sure how to use this website so I'm not going to respond to your messages right :(

Hey everyone, my dad was out into remmision almost a year a go I was just wondering did anyone do anything to celebrate that one year in remmision and if so what did you guys do. My dad had his cancer in his throat, and it attached its self...

my pa has cancer. he isn’t going to well, he has had it for 18 years so longer then i have been alive for but it has recently gotten worse it it now non treatable his doctors have stopped his chemo and all operations. they have warned my gran...

this was most likely my last christmas with my pa and i didn’t get to see him

Hi all, I have lost both of my parents and while I feel that I have overcome a majority of the initial grief there is still one thing I struggle with a lot and it’s dealing with my extended family especially around this time of year. I never had...

I’ve always been one to be amazing at holiday gifts but with mum having a year left with us no materialistic or any gift for the Christmas holidays seems good enough. I’m unsure what to do and would really love some suggestions 💛 (I’ve considered to the...

I have been driving myself nuts trying to find things that can cure or help with lung cancer I have even rang a million hospitals asking for help but dads cancer is incurable & it’s so hard to deal with it sucks!! Cancer sucks and my dad doesn’t deserve...

Hi friends, It looks like my Mum is going to stop her chemo treatment in the next couple of weeks and spend her final months with a bit more energy than she has had the last couple of months. The chemo has been destroying her and this isn't how...

Has anyone else on here got a step-mum after losing your mum? I have had a lot of difficulty with communicating with her and have since moved out of home because it got so bad

Hi I’m new to the canteen program and this online community. I’m Kristin, I’m 25 and my Nan has terminal lung cancer and deteriorating COPD (emphysema) and I am her full time carer.. She’s like my best friend and is honestly like a parent to me.. But as...

hi all my name is Hayley and I am 15 1/2 I have just been told that my nan has been diagnosed with skin cancer on the left side of her face and she also has a brain tumar and a bone disease too and it kills me to...

When I was 10 I overheard my mum talking to a doctor. When she got off the phone I asked mum what she is doing she said my poppy has cancer I started to cry. T hen Christmas came around, we were going to the Sunshine Coast and poppy...

Yesterday I spent 7 hours up on the gold coast with my aunty. She's come out of a domestic violence relationship so now she's on the streets and recently been diagnosed with breast cancer that has already spread to her lymph nodes so it's quite serious....

Hiya, my name is Erin and I'm 14. When I was 6 my dad was diagnosed with bowel cancer, he's doing really well now. In the same year my uncle was diagnosed with brain cancer and my grandpa with metastatic melanoma (skin cancer). Since then I've lost both...

Well it all started when I was 4 and I didn't know what was going on fully but my nanny had cancer. The doctors didn't know where it came from but it quickly turned into a brain tumour an she eventually died in the hospice. That was the first...