Respite care for nasty side effects?

Hi Sezziekinz welcome to the forum and I am so very sorry to hear what is happening  for you and your dad right now. Im not quite sure what it is that you are asking. However, I do know that people still view hospices as places people go to die but they have changed a lot over the years and very often have people going back and forth to get symptoms under control as these people know what drugs to use in combination to get these symptoms that dad is experiencing under control. Hope that makes sense?  

Hi Gail,I'm thankful he is being offered the respite as he needs it, 2 weeks ago when this was mentioned he put the phone down on the nurse! But it's been a rapid decline since then,I'm just worried he won't come out and there doesn't seem to be much information around recovering from side effects.

Hi SezzieKinz and a warm welcome from me, don't often post on this forum, my main one is the living with incurable cancer forum, where many of us go in to the hospice for respite care or pain management and then go home. quite a few several times. Just as GRANNY59 has said, Hospices are so much more than places to die. I lost my mum to T4 lung cancer which was not treatable, I know it's difficult but please don't give up hope, your dad's treatment has taken a lot out of him, treatment he wouldn't have had if the doctors didn't think it would help, take care.

Eddie

Thankyou Eddie : )

This nasty disease certainly does mess with your hopes!

Sarah