Hi all, I’m new to the groups but found the nurses reply recently was lovely so thought I would post here too.
To cut a long story short, my oldest friend who is 51 has cancer that started in the breast, spread to spine, kidney, skull & now brain. She has been through endless treatments for 2 yrs inc intensive radiotherapies recently on the brain. She seems to have deteriorated significantly recently & I am helping her a lot more. She is constantly confused, either speaks nonsense or is silent and almost seems to have left us. This has been the case for a few months now & worsening. She has regular wobbles or full on falls and seizures on occasion.
does anyone have experience of these symptoms? It’s impossible to know precisely what stage she is at I know, but I would like to have an idea and I am assuming that she is in the latter stages. I wonder what happens next, will she just stop communicating entirely before long? Have we essentially lost her already? Do others with experience of this think that in some level understanding is still there? I speak to her as I always have done despite no response & will continue to do so. She was also being a little aggressive which has never been her. This seems to have calmed though as she has worsened. Any thoughts appreciated. Thanks all.
