Hello - We found out yesterday (22th Sept 2009) that my boyfriends mom's cancer is untreatable.
She first developed bowl cancer last November and then a different cancer in her liver developed in February this year. After what we all thought was a successful operation to remove part of the liver followed by chemotherapy, the results of a PET scan yesterday showed that four more tumours were now in her lower abdomen and subsequently inoperable and therefore terminal. We are all in a state of shock at the moment and emotions are all over the place. I can’t begin to know how she managed to tell her husband, two sons and daughter the news.
Her daughter (also my friend) gets married in three weeks and because of this has declined treatment and chemotherapy until after the wedding as the specialists have explained the dose will be so high and will have severe side effects. At this stage I’m not entirely clear on timescales of her life expectancy but I understand months rather than years which is incomprehensible.
The family are all very close and I know will be strong and offer support to each other – I am joining this site really to find out ways to support my boyfriend and the loving family I feel part of.
xx
