Hi, I know that we are not on our own on this site. I have read through some very sad cases on the community chat forum and I’m hoping that we can benefit from other people who are going through this nightmare.
My wife was diagnosed with primary breast cancer 10 years ago. On the very day of her receiving her 5 year all clear, she developed secondary bone cancer. After a 14 hour life saving surgery, we have been lucky enough to have survived a further 5 years. I feel that we have been blessed to have been given this length of time.. Last August we were dealt a further blow that the disease had spread to her liver.. This has obviously devastated the whole family. We have had further radiotherapy sessions, CT scans, MRI & Bone scans. There has been a huge change to our lives as I’m sure everybody who has suffered from this dreadful disease. Chemotherapy, has resulted in weight loss, zero appetite and the current side effect is water retention. The water retention is a huge one for her to deal with at the moment. Please may I ask if anybody else has been through this side effect. It has resulted in her not being able to walk without me by her side as she has no control or strength because of the amount of water retention. Our oncologist has no answer to why this has developed to the extent that it has. It could possibly be to do with her liver function ? Has anybody else on the forum come across this kind of side effect ? If so, I would be so grateful if I could receive some positive feed back that might help us to deal with this situation we find ourselves in.
Thanks for reading my War & Peace experience and god bless everyone who might be going through this life changing nightmare xxxx
