Good evening,
just wanted to reach out to someone. My mum is soon to be 82. She was diagnosed with Sclc in her lung end of last year 2024. She had radiotherapy. In February/march 2025 she went for her follow up scan. Saw the oncologist on a Monday who then hasn’t received mums full report but checked the lung scan and told mum it had shrunk and she would probably be discharged . On Friday the same week mum saw her lung consultant who told her he had seen nodules on the same lung. The next Monday mum was sent in for a pet scan etc etc. by the week after we were sat in with the oncologist again who told mum the tumour had spread to her lung lymph nodes and no further treatment could be given, we were told to go home and enjoy our time together.
Mum has been referred to palliative nurses who have been out twice to see her, they are going to see my mum every 2 weeks. My mum hardly eats and is still smoking. She has copd and uses inhalers and can’t walk far.
We know her life is now limited but I want to know how long? The lung team gave me an example “ if there was a pice of string and to the left it read weeks, middle of the string read months and to the right read years” mum is potentially to the weeks- months.
myself and my sister are both working full time and are taking odd days off as annual leave to spend with mum. In fact she is coming to mine for the day tomorrow.
how soon will her health deteriorate further? Should we be planning her finances etc?
thanks you for reading this.
Best wishes
