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.
