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5th June 2013
The phone call we had all been waiting for finally came today.
My sister answered the call from the consultant who sid the results are back and we need to make an appointment for friday to see him. As none of us could wait until then my sister asked him a few questions,
Can you offer any treatment
What cancer is the primary one
How long does he think mum has left with treatment.
The answers were
yes chemotherapy to try to reduce it not cure it.
the tumours in mums lungs are...
1st june 2013
The weekend was a lovely one. My Mums brothers and sisters came to see her. My Mum is staying with my sister at present as she has the room to make a bedroom downstairs so she cooked a lovely dinner for us all. Mum was laughing for the first time in nearly two week as we all sat in dawns garden basking in the glorious sunshine that had decided to show up just for mum.
My aunties and uncles were asking me how mums doing and do they know how long she has left to which I replied we wont...
31st may 2013
Todays visit was a little happier, knowing shes coming home has made a massive difference to mums mood. I get my orders to pack everything up ready (this was at 08.30 lol)
Mum got more and more aggitated as the time rolled by with no sign of going for the ultrasound or spirometry then at 16.30hrs mum gets wheeled down for her scan. we are dreading what they may find but great news that area is clear from growths now we just have to wait for the breathing test then shes on her way...
30th May 2013
Today is the day of the bronchoscopy. we are all nervous and my sister and I arent doing a split shift today ,we have both been there since early morning to support Mum.Mum was nil be mouth today and was gasping for her morning cuppa tea. Also it was the day when she decided she had the munchies. typical the first 4 days after admittance she woudnt eat now shes not allowed to she wants to. :)
We sit waiting for the porter until 13.30hrs. We say our goodbyes to Mum and wish her luck...
Today we were told mums to poorly for the liver biopsy so the consultant would like to try a bronchoscopy to get a sample of the cancer.
Mum doesnt seem to concerned about this procedure as she had to have her oesophagus stretched many years ago and she assumed it was a similar procedure. I think now it was a good job she didnt know what it really involved as im not sure she would have had it done.
We are told it will be later in the week. which really miffed my mum as she was hoping to go home...
25th may 2013 - 28th may 2013
Its a bank holiday weekend and the sun is beaming through the ward, Its to nice a day I think to myself for Mum to be stuck inside. I consider taking her out into the grounds to get some air and hopefully lift her spirits but mum is still on oxygen full time so we are stuck in the ward as a portable oxygen and drip are hard to come by.
Dawn (my Sister) and I are now doing split shifts between us due to the fact an incompetent nurse yanked out Mums catherter still fully...
23rd May 2013
Mum seems to have gone into a bubble where no one can reach her today, She sits looking out of the window next to her bed just gazing not really focusing on anything. She grabs our hands and holds them just that little bit tighter than normal.
The doctor comes round again in the morning and says to Mum she needs to have a biopsy to determine what type of cancer she has and how aggressive. My Mum barely says a word at this point so my sister and I ask when will the biopsy be and where...
21st May 2013
Mum had been on nebulisers all night and then the doctors said we want to do a ct scan as the regular treatment isnt working and they just wanted to make sure they hadnt missed anything.
Mum was taken for her CT and returned to the ward and us.This was about 2 in the afternoon. My Sister and I spent the afternoon having a little giggle trying to cheer mum up a little.
Later that afternoon the doctors came to my Mums bed, pulled the curtain round and proceeded to tell us Mum had tumours...
My dear Mum has had c.o.p.d for many years which gives her chest infections at a rate of one a month. They happen so often and usually respond to steroids and antibiotics that we wasnt really concerned when in May 2013 mum got another bad chest.
That was until after a week of treatment Mum was worse than ever. She could hardly breathe and any physical effort made her gasp for air. We begged her to go back to the doctors or even go into hospital but she point blanked refused. Eventually she got so...
I'm feeling a little down today and sorry for myself, it's not that anything bad has happened, its just always feeling under the weather and wondering if i'm ever going to feel relatively normal again. Sorry to be so down today but i did say at the beginning it would be a warts and all account. It may be that as the day goes on i will be able to give myself a kick up the bum but we will see :( dee
