Full diagnosis

Hi Happy Chic 

It’s a horrible appointment when you have to sit and listen to all of that . However the hope is that the treatment achieves enough to open up other options . If you click on my user name you can read how my mum has navigated palliative care for the last 14 years . I need to update it as she is currently back on treatment .

Has it spread to other organs ? I can get you some information you might find helpful .

You do get into a routine and once the adrenaline settles it can be good to look at how to stay active during treatment . We have had many people through here where treatment has opened up other options .

Take care ,

Court 

Hi thank you for your reply. He has a mass in his pelvis and in lymph node’s & blood vessels. He has also a small tumour growing on his left lung. We have had our teats today but have decided its business as normal & roll with what ever cones along x

https://bowelcancerorguk.s3.amazonaws.com/Publications/TreatingAdvancedBowelCancer_BowelCancerUK.pdf

This booklet is quite good at explaining the difference in treatments . Bowel cancer is quite fortunate at having a lot of different approaches to a spread . Initially they do like to gain stability and hopefully shrinkage . They rescan and his case will go back to the mdt and if there is a way to introduce other approaches they do that . My mum ended up with two liver resections and one lung resection after successful chemo . She started out as inoperable.

Her motto was always “ Best foot forward “ . It takes time to digest the information , learn how to live a good life around treatment . Accept there are rotten days but also good ones . In fact since my mum’s diagnosis we have some wonderful good family holidays and times .

Take care and you both have a great attitude.

Cancer has some great language . My mum went from significant spread to significant shrinkage . The man next to her went from significant spread to radical radiotherapy . Hope he hears some of this news in the future too .

Court 

Hi, going through the same, only managed one chemo then an infection and in hospital as we speak. Having his portal has been cancelled twice but hey ho just have to take each day as it comes. I agree it just isn’t fair!, Good luck.