My husband was diagnosed with bowel and liver cancer at the end of June 2024 and told that without treatment he only had three months to live.
He had his first chemo three weeks ago but it wiped him out, he became very tired, dehydrated, sore mouth and chest infection that ended with him being admitted to hospital. He has since been moved to a hospice.
the hospice has been in contacts with his consultant and he is booked in for chemo in two weeks time.
BUT, he is bed bound and weak, his infection and sore mouth has gone but he has no strength in his legs now,
the doctor has told him that he needs to eat to build his strength and put him in a position to be able to have chemo.
He know he needs to eat and says he wants to fight and get his strength back but he doesn’t do what he says he is going to do. He won’t eat, we have tried to encourage him, we have been nice and we have also shouted at him to try to bring the fight out but he won’t eat enough.
its killing me and the family knowing that he has to eat otherwise there is no treatment.
He doesn’t know why he won’t eat, when I ask I just get ‘I don’t know’
i feel like I have my life on hold, while I visit him and spend all my time going to and from the hospice but I get nothing back from him. I just want him either to fight and start eating or if he doesn’t want to to at least tell me that.
i feel lost
