Hello to anyone reading this. My mum started complaining of shoulder pain in September 2010 it was stopping her playing golf and it was really getting her down She went to the doctors and was sent to physiotherapy and given steroid injections for tennis elbow. The pain increased and mum looked tired and was sleeping downstairs in a chair. Mum had mentioned a small lump but no-one listened. Finally a family doctor listened and referred her to a specialist she had a biopsy and we were hit with the unthinkable secondary bone cancer. Since this time she has had various investigations and scans and they have found another lesion on her spine but to date they cannot find the primary (although they suspect it's on the lung). Mum has had one course of radiotherapy to her scapula and another to her spine. She has had reactions such as the runs, sickness, tiredness, sore throat loss of her voice, thrush in her mouth and more recently confusion. To be honest I am scared stiff of what is to come and each day I wake wondering if mum has slept, is in pain and will be able to get out of the house as she is currently confined to a chair! She has had a PET test today to try and locate the primary tumour and to see where else this evil cancer may be. We have been given a prognosis of months how many who knows? the next step is chemotherapy and I know mum will remain unwell during this there seems to just be no break from pain. I am hoping that someone can give me some positive advice to help during this process as currently I feel that my whole world is a wirl wind and I need to be positive and prepared for what is to come. My mum is only 62 and has 4 grandchildren she has everything to live for as she is a tough old bird.
Vicky xxx
