Hey there, new to the forums but wanted some guidance and hope in an otherwise difficult time
Back at the end of the summer after some other health complications, our family had the news that my Mother had bowel cancer, which had spread to her lymph nodes, which we were told could not be cured with surgery. After processing this, it took a long time before she received her first oncology appointment but since then, it's just been a constant battle to get appointments sorted, to speak to people and have some treatment done. She then had a seizure which we discovered she had two small tumours on her brain with was treated with one round of radiotherapy, but there were constant pushbacks for getting her onto chemotherapy due to a lack of protein and potassium in her system.
Now after almost a week of pain, she's back in hospital but yesterday we were told her cancer has advanced and she's been placed on a palliative care ward. We don't know how long we have left with her but I'm finding it hard processing this, as I feel like she wasn't even given a chance to even try the chemo, and robbed of all the things she wanted to do, as well as all the plans we had together. It's just me and my dad who lives here and thankfully my brother and sister in law are staying with us for some time, but it's just hard to stay strong through all of this.
