We have just had an X-ray result back from the hospital. My dad has oesophageal and lung cancer, now quite advanced. My sister and I noticed some early xray results which talked well over a year ago about “worrying lesions” in the oesophagus. My dad was never told this. He was told that there were precancerous cells on the oesophagus and he could either progress with treatment or leave things to see how it went. He was never called back and family did not really know about this. When next checked he had stage 4 incurable, with months to live. I am so angry that his situation was not properly explained. Nor that we as family of a very elderly gentleman were not informed. Even though it’s too late to worry now, it makes me furious. Do the nhs care about over 80/85s at all? Don’t they know they may get confused and not fully understand or be able to compute the implications of a diagnosis or decision alone? Rant over. But I think this is so wrong. And tragic for my dad. Probably for many others.
