daidish2

A day to remember-for all the wrong reasons

2011-03-11T23:40:05Z

Yesterday I took my partner to Singleton Hospital, in Swansea, so that she could receive radio-therapy to help ease the severe pain in her back. She was barely conscious during the 5 hours that we were there because of all the morphine I had administered in an attempt to ease the pain. While waiting for calculations to be made to work out how much therapy would be needed and while my partner slept peacefully in an alcove of the waiting room, I was able to talk at length to the specialist dealing with partners case; the news she gave me was even worse than I had anticipated: not only had the lung cancer spread to her spine and to the bones there was also a large tumor, in her chest, which is pressing on a major blood vessel to the heart. The prognosis is quite bad with time left being "Only a few months"

My partner isn't aware at the moment just how advanced the cancer is but I know she will have to be told soon

Yesterday I learnt exactly what is afflicting my partner and that there is very little time left for us to be together; I won't forget yesterday in a hurry

The paliative nurse is being a great help and the Macmillan benefits advisor has also helped conbsiderably.

bronchoscopy

2011-02-18T13:51:18Z

I took my partner to hospital this morning for a bronchoscopy, and had what we think is a little good news: the camera picked up "No abnormality" and "Normal endobronchial tree throughout". A further bronchoscopy is likely but for now that bit of positive news has helped my partner considerably. I just wish that she wasn't so tired all the time so that she could be taken out to do some shopping or anything to get out of the house for a few hours.

Biopsy

2011-02-18T07:08:16Z

It's off to the hospital for my partner's biopsy at 8:45. Then a 7 -10 day wait for the results. So now it all begins.

Apart from a two hours during the night my partner remains pain free for the first time in months

New member

2011-02-17T14:10:00Z

My ex-wife was diagnosed with lung cancer on Monday, she is coming home from hospital this afternoon and I have moved back to what was the matrimonial home to become her full time carer.

I know that sooner or later I will be in need of help in dealing with my ex and also dealing with my own problems as her condition worstens.

She is going back to hospital tomorrow morning for a biopsy, but we know that the cancer has already moved to multiple sites on her spine so I am not very optimistic.