HI, I'm caring for my mother in law who came to stay with us in October. We found out last week hat she has stage 4 lung cancer. We have a potential shot at 14 doses of radiotherapy but not until 6 weeks time. We have been given a prognosis of a couple of months to maybe a year if treatment works.
Grandchildren (young adults) are understandably struggling. My partner (her son) is coping ok but not sure its fully hit yet.
Because she seems ok from a cancer point of you in terms of symptoms other than a cough its difficult to know what to expect. We have more of an issue with dementia (awaiting diagnosis) specifically short term memory and she forgets tell us of any new symptoms.
I'm not sure what i should be looking out for?
Hi
Sorry to hear about your mother-in-law, the additional level of potential dementia and the possibility of missing things must be challenging. If we look at Your feelings when someone has cancer I see lots of things you talk about in others. I know when my wife was diagnosed the thing I learnt the hard was was the importance of looking after me.
One of the classic problems in cancer is of course everyone is different.
When my dad was ill it got to the point where my sister had to take over both this health and financial management - fortunately we had arranged power of attorney and that was very helpful.
Do post on here whenever though as someone is always listening.
<<hugs>>
Steve
