Christine C.

About Christine C.

I’m currently sitting in my husband’s hospital room while they try to come up with a pain management regimen that will ease his pain. And there’s no place I’d rather be.

I’ve been with my husband for 36 years, married for 31, and it’s always been he and I.

5 months ago, we were given the worst news, you have metastatic prostate cancer and it has spread to his bones. He has cancer in his spine, entire pelvis, both femurs, left humerus, sternum, base of his skull and lesions in both lungs.

We’ve been denied medicine by our insurance yet we continue to fight. I’ve loved this man since I was fifteen years old, we’ve experienced the birth of our daughter, loss of loved ones, many martial struggles, joyous family celebrations but this cancer has rocked us to the core.

He has always been my rock so now as his caregiver I NEED to be his. Between, catheter changes, enemas, trips to radiation, Drs appointments, UTI’s, failed prescriptions, daily pain, increased spread of cancer, I got this!

Chemotherapy was supposed to start last week but we ended up in the hospital. Watching my husband go from working construction 12-14 hours a day to losing 75 pounds since diagnosis, unable to do his only daily care, struggle to walk, terrible mood swings, grow weaker by the day, become a shell of who he use to be, has been terrifying and heartbreaking However…

He is my world and there’s no place I’d rather be❤

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