well mum has been really ill this week not eating and at one point couldnrt even stand up .weare down to shuffling now as she cant walk properly.and it takes two of us to get her on and off commode .the response from the stand in doctor when we phoned on monday was :your not ill ,im sending the district nurse to assess you :(apparently being terminally ill with o.s.cancer doesnt count)the nurse was then overheard saying that the doctor had been called as we the family"werent copin"i will not repeat on here my reply to that ,however the good thing that came out of this is that we had a macmillan nurse come out again to assess her .dont know wat will happen now .we can just see her getting worse in front of our eyes whilst the medical proffession do sod all .sorry for the rant but bmy darling mum is slowly losing her memory ,terrible headaches 24/7 on top of all her other symptoms and no one seems to want to help.......
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