Hello, I am waiting for a colonoscopy, having had a 'fine' one 18 months ago. I've been told to prepare for it being bowel cancer. I am a single parent and sole carer for my autistic son. Just trying to think about how he can be supported if I'm not around, he doesn't need residential care but would need some level of support to live without me.
Hi Fliss4
Sorry to read your story; perhaps the good news is that having had a colonoscopy 18 months ago and now having another one then if it is bowel cancer it is likely to have been caught early.
Our son is also autistic so can relate to what you talk about. We are fortunate in that my wife's brother and his wife are nominated guardians and they adopted a son who has offered to look after Michael if anything happened to us all. We are also lucky to have some very good autism charities locally who have been very helpful in turning our young man in to a trubute to us.
I wonder if it might be worth talking to e.g. the national autistic society so that you might have some support in working out what might work for your son if you were to e.g. spend some time in hospital.
<<hugs>>
Steve
