Hi, my gran was diagnosed with lung cancer in nov and was told no treatment as she is too weak. We’ve been told it’s very aggressive and in two weeks it had spread from one lung to the other.
We haven’t been given any more info as to what to expect now. In the last week alone she has barely been eating she very rarely gets out of her chair and she has a really dry mouth her ankles have also swollen. We’re doing everything we can to try and help with this and are doing what the nurses suggest but we don’t have any idea what stage we are at. I don’t want to ask the nurses in front of my granny because she is scared and I don’t want to upset her. I think she knows she probably hasn’t got long but wouldn’t want to hear it. The oncologist didn’t give a time frame as they said it was hard to say.
no one has said to us what will happen just that she will gradually get more ill but are all these symptoms signs that Eol is not too far away? It’s so strange because she is so with it when she is awake
Hi Outlook2022
Sorry to hear about your gran and the impact her cancer is having on your family. The simple truth is that nobody really knows the answer to the questions because experience has shown that any time frame is at best an educated guess. I am sure having her family around and the support of the nurses means that she will feel loved. If you manage to share the fantastic memories you have of her it may help to make this time easier.
There is a set of pages on end of life on the main site, while focused more on the patient some of the information there might be helpful.
<<hugs>>
Steve
