My 73 year old mum was diagnosed with bowel cancer, she had a heart attack last year so her heart is weak, they can't risk operating or chemo as she wouldn't survive it so to but us some more time they have fitted a stent in her bowel, it hasn't worked and her bowel has completely shut down. Apparently it will be either a perforation that takes her or her heart will shut down too. I feel like a robot just surviving each day worrying if she is going to make it through the night. She was absolutely fine until 9 weeks ago when the chronic diarrhoea started. She phoned the doctors and they just kept saying it's a tummy bug until she started having severe hypos where her sugar levels had dropped because she couldn't eat anything. Then she was taken to intensive care because her bowel was blocked by the tumour, a stent was fitted, she had a good week but then the stent came out, she almost perforated, another stent was fitted but now her bowel has just stopped working at all. She refuses to accept that she has cancer so I'm trying to act normal when I'm with her but as soon as I leave the hospital my legs are shaking, my heart is breaking and I can't focus on anything. It hurts so much knowing that we probably only have days left with her. I'm not ready for this!
