Hi all,
my daughter has end stage ovarian cancer and is bed bound and on tpn for nutrition. She’s still being treated with a targeted drug called lumakras but she is having a setback and has pneumonia. She has a habit of bouncing back and has been in worse situations and is now at home with good 24/7 nursing care. It’s so heartbreaking as she was engaged to be married in October. Her original ovarian cyst was in 2020 and thought to be benign. She had scans every 6 months but in Feb 2023 she had a more serious cancer - the first was stage 0 and she had no spread and was given 95% never coming back. I’m having trouble as a mother understanding how and why this happened. I have a lot of guilt for possibly missing signs and also my husband is an oncologist. I’m glad she had a few good years after the 2020 thing but this is very devastating and I don’t feel like anyone can understand my emotional pain I’m glad to be a part of this group even tho I live in Virginia Beach , VA US
my grandparents were from Birmingham
Hi Geoergiadawg welcome to the forum.
I am beyond sorry to hear what is happening for you and your family. Sometimes there are no answers as to why things happen as they do no matter how hard we seek these answers. I dont think you should be beating yourself up about missing something, it sounds like you have been there and been as available for your daughter as you could as a parent. Hubby will be upset, but he needn't be, this is his daughter and not a random patient and that makes it very very different for him, so he need not be hard on himself either. Your husband will know more than most that some of these Cancers can be very sneaky and hide until they have done enormous damage already.
No ammount of words are going to make any of this any better for you and I send many caring thoughts across the miles and some huge big hugs.
gail
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