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I'm feeling pretty devastated right now - mum has deteriorated over the last 5 days and she was meant to be coming home from the hospice tomorrow, I cleared her room out to make way for the special bed (which is all set up and ready to go) and my daughter is preparing to decorate the room with all things Christmassy (like a little tree and tiny baubles!) - and the hospice rang me this morning to say her discharge has…

Hello all and my love and hugs to you all as we go into what looks like a very cold winter. I just thought I'd give you an update on my mum as it's almost two months exactly (25th) since we found out that she has lung cancer.....seems like years ago. Having spent two weeks in our local general hospital including having a 5 unit blood transfusion, mum was transferred to our nearest hospice on Thursday for what they call…

Hello again everyone, Had to share my exasperation felt today with the place my mum is at - it says 'hospital' outside on the board, but I have my doubts. Mum had a really breathless day yesterday, having gone steadily downhill last week, and at 3pm I phoned our District Nurse team who advised me to call the GP as he will have to prescribe the oxygen she probably needs. I duly phoned the GP and when he had arrived…

My mum had her PET scan on Monday and the lung cancer nurse rang yesterday to say that it's 'inoperable', basically explaining that it's attached to 'central nodules' (in other words, they can't remove the whole thing). They said she can have chemo, but to be honest she is quite anti-chemo as she doesn't want to be made ill when the prognosis is so poor anyway. Any advice - for or against - would be really welcome.…

My mum had a chest x-ray on 3rd September 2008. The following morning, while at work, the GP rang to say Mum needs to see a chest physician within one week as there is a problem with the x-ray. I went to see him on the Friday (5th) and asked him if it could be lung cancer, as, if I'm honest, that was my first thought. He wouldn't say, but said it's a possibility. Over that weekend, I broke the news gently to my mum -…