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Caregiving for a Partner with Prostate Cancer Can Be Harder Than We Admit to Ourselves

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November is National Family Caregivers Month.Shay Greenwood, a wife and mother of five children, said she was exhausted and developing a pretty big chip on her shoulder. “I did everything for everyone,” said Greenwood. “I was depleted.”When her husband’s back problems worsened, she didn’t have the time or capacity that day to take him to the hospital for an MRI and other tests. “I thought he was just going to be told he needed back surgery,” Greenwood recalled. But at that appointment, her husband was diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer that had spread to his spine. “The chip on my shoulder...

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