monday came. It was the longest day waiting for a 4.15pm appointment.
As a doctor, does it ever get easier to tell someone that the treatment hasn't worked?
Unfortunately, my husbands cancer has worsened. The existing tumours have doubled in size and are pressing against the wall of the oesophagus which itself has thickened. There are more lymph glands infected and now the liver too. All of this whilst on chemoradiotherapy. It beggers belief.
There is very little treatment available. Talk of inserting a stent asap as his eating is almost non existant.
We hope to keep the news away from the children until christmas has been. How do you tell the children? This is our weakness.
We are holding things together pretty well, always have. My wondreful husband has so much strength and determination. This is now about concentrating energies on making the most of the time we have rather than on getting better.
Its hard to pin the medics down to time but we are talking long months rather than years.
