Hi completely out of the blue my world has turned upside down with a shock dignosis for my Dad. He is 78 and fit and healthy in general however over the last few weeks we noticed his manorism changing he was becoming forgetful and his sight seemed off ... few gp trips and then a call A week on Monday it was thought he might if had a TA
stroke clinic sent him for MRI but it showed a mass on the right side of his brain . We attended QMC last Monday and was basically told it was a grade 4 aggressive tumour which was inoperable and incurable things were mentioned which we really didn’t take in but they said a biopsy would be best so he signed the forms and had pre op done... next day he said he wasn’t sure about the biopsy as he was feeling quite well (steroids) and maybe hold off for few weeks .... I had something telling me I had heard the nurse say 3/4 months so we rang her and asked what would the prognosis be if he didn’t have biopsy and it was those words .. he had maybe 3/4 months before it became life threatening but if he had the biopsy then once results came back they could look at what treatment he may be able to have .. and then hopefully 12/14 months
he was booked in last Friday but on Thursday he went down hill and had very bad sickness and upset tum so it was cancelled
he’s now awaiting another call but I’ve sat looking at him all weekend and he just seems to be deteriorating and I’m not sure he would cope he’s 78 my parents have often said that they wouldn’t have treatment as they have seen some poorly relatives in the past and they didn’t want to spend months being sick etc
i just don’t know what to do
