Hi, I’m new here. My dad’s been feeling ill for a while now, loss of appetite and losing weight, pain in his back and knee, I’ve been asking him to go to the GP for weeks but he’s never been one for doctors so refused. His partner made him go on Monday and they sent him straight to A&E. He’s been in hospital ever since and yesterday they said they wanted to test for cancer. Today they’ve told him that it’s not good news - Oesophageal cancer and it’s spread to his bones.
Don’t know much more than that other than they’ve told him that it’s not curable but is treatable.
He currently lives in Ireland (Republic of) but wants to come here for treatment to be near me and my brother. I don’t even know if that’s possible at the moment from an NHS point of view.
Everyone seems to be in shock and my brother looks broken. Dad already seems to have decided that that’s it for him now, that it’s all over and he’s terrified. Just feeling rather overwhelmed by it all.
