How did your spouse react?

[Guest guest]

Hey guys,

As you might remember, I got my diagnosis just 2 weeks ago and I took it

pretty hard. And the doctor isn't doing much for me right now, so the pain

is pretty intense.

But my husband is a very supportive, loving and " touchy-feely " kind of

person. He is also a Mr. Fix-It. So he is having double trouble with this

diagnosis. #1 - He can't fix it. He can't make it go away, he can't stop

the pain, he can't cure it. He is worse with this than he was with my

bi-polar diagnosis. #2 He is ver affectionate and want to hug and sqeeze

and cuddle all the time. I try not to let on that it hurts sometime, but to

does. And when he notices he feels so bad. And now that he knows it hurts,

he is afraid to touch me. He is very down because he says this disease has

taken me away from him. It hasn't, of course. We just have to modify the

intensity of our affection (he is a very big, strong man).

Anyway, how did your spouses or SO's take it when you were diagnosed? How

did you help them to understand?