My 87 year old grandmother has recently been diagnosed with a lung cancer terminal stage 4! She's not coping well having never been ill very understandable, she has deteriorated so much in the space of 8weeks.
She doesn't want to hear the ins and outs of what the future holds, she wants treatment and wants to still be for resus, she doesn't want to hear the whole story but wants to know why she's not feeling better after antibiotics to try and treat an infection but doesn't want to hear that she can't have chemo until there is no infection..it feels twisted and cruel and that's without what the actual cancer is doing to her, my family and I are trying to manage a one to one care for her so no care homes etc!!
Did I also mention, I'm a qualified nurse, I am also listed as NOK and I am the only person who has access to all of her tests etc on her permission and truly am the only one who knows exactly where this is going!! so that's why I'm not sleeping
