Thinking every symptom in anyone in family is cancer!?

I think once it hits you once to someone close it changes you forever. When I was a kid my dad kept complaining about headaches and vision problems and it was getting worse and worse. I remember fearing he had a brain tumor. And he did. He lost his battle within months and then my stepbrother lost his life to a sarcoma tumor a couple of years later.

So when Josef was having fevers and they kept doing blood counts I started thinking leukemia probably weeks before he was diagnosed. For my wife it did not hit her until they sat us down in a conference room. I was already convinced as I had heard too many code words from nurses etc. plus I guess due to my sense that yes it can happen.

Just lost my stepdad on Christmas Eve to pancreatic cancer. So yeah........cancer is everywhere and is a bad thing and comes in many forms. But thankfully most families are not as affected as mine has been. However, I am sure many many of the people on this board have lost a close relative to cancer.

But I have to keep my son.

Jon

Oh yes. If I feel bloated and there is no obvious cause (food or hormones), I think ovarian cancer. I discovered a lump on a rib - that was bone cancer until I learned there were lymph nodes, then I was thinking lymphoma ... I did have that checked and the doctor said its just bone where my sternum meets the rib. Anyway, yes, that's where my thoughts go.  :(

Me too,  when ever I don't feel well I tell myself I have cancer.  It could be a cold for god sakes and I have lung cancer or sinus caner (if that even exists)!  I think a lot of us parents think this way, its just the fear speaking!  I think it's normal!