87 year olds mother diagnosed with last fe-threatening bowel cancer last Thursday . They will assess her for op. And if it can’t be removed she goes into palliative care. She’s been into hospital twice in 3 weeks with acute pain relieved by being given an enema after bloods and x ray. It was after 2nd admission CT scan showed large tumour. Today pain again so into hospital. I phoned after two hours to be told her pain gone and after she’d been given an enema she could come home. An hour later she was discharged. In car home she says ‘ I was asked if I wanted the give myself the enema and I said yes’. She had it in her handbag! I’m shocked she was given a choice and it is left up to her. Is this usual?
