Hi my husband has been diagnosed with metastatic colorectal cancer that has spread to his liver and the lymph nodes tracking towards his aorta, he has so far had 2 courses of chemo, both courses have given him problems, the first affected his heart so had to be changed, the second gave him chronic diarrhoea that he had to be intravenously rehydrated.
he is now concerned for his third course, amongst all this I have some questions, firstly he has a couple of lumps in his groin that have become extremely painful, I'm assuming these are lymph nodes but not sure if it is normal for them to hurt ?
He is generally fed up with feeling so ill with the chemo, he wants to have a few drinks, should I be putting my foot down or letting him drink ?
I am struggling with all of this, he isn't the easiest of patients some times and my best is nowhere near good enough for him, and knowing how much he is enduring isn't easy either, our consultant hasn't given us any kind of time frame which we are both struggling with, its like he's a ticking time bomb but I don't know how fast I have to run, I'm trying to get things in order and also trying to do more things together while we can, I sometimes feel like I'm running a marathon backwards, Is it the right thing to ask the consultant for a time frame ?
Sorry, I really don't know who else to talk to
