hi everyone my name is sarah and my mam was diagnosed with oesophegal cancer in december 2007, radiation and chemo in january 2008 mam got very sick with the chemo so refused the second dose as it was a very strong dose. In June 2008 mam got a oesophagectomy and was a great success well so we taught in june 2009 we found out mam had another tumor relating to the first one which is at stage four, mam starts chemo next thursday, one session for three months and then a scan and take it from there. Is my mam going to die, is there anyone out there who has had a similar situaton and battled through it. I really love my mam and cant imagine life without here its so so hard, i taught when we got over the surgery we were through it but we just keep meeting obtacles. please if anyone can shed any light on this please right to me. thank you for taking the time to read my blog sarahxx
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I really feel for you Sarah, and I know how scared you are feeling right now. It is so hard to see past things when your head is so pickled with everything that is going on.
Eveyone's cancer is different and it would be wrong of anyone that is not a professonal to advise you on what is going to happen to your mum, but what I would say is Never ever give up hope.
What I can tell you is my experience of my mum, she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2000, and was told her cancer was very aggressive and her prognosis was 6 months she had 20 lynph nodes infected also. She got her chemotherapy treatment and we all prepared for the worst as the chemo was very tough on her and we didn't expect her to survive very long.
It is 2009 and my mum is still with us and her cancer had not returned!!!!!!!!!!!!! So take ech day as it comes with your mum and make it special, if you don't have hope you don't really have anything.
I wish you all the very best and your mum too with her treatment.
My hubby has had two types of cancer, totally unrelated to each other, one of which is back for the sixth time, hubby has had some really harsh treatments over the years and is now back on high dose chemo, he has had five ops over the years as well as a bone marrow transplant but he is still here and still fighting, oh and good news this chemo seems to be working. So I guess I am trying to say that none of us can give guarentees but hubby always says it is the way you think about it that gets you through. If you mum has a bad time with treatment do not be frightened of telling the docs they have lots of things to help overcome the side effects of treatments, which can help. Keep positive!
