Mums diagnosis and treatment fears

Hi Cakegirl 

Sorry to read about your mum. The treatment is a real challenge for even the fittest of us so your mum is going to need extra support. She will have a team at the hospital looking after her. Make contact with her CNS (clinical nurse specialist) and her Dieticians. Is she going to have a feeding tube fitted? She will find it hard to swallow after three weeks or so and definitely more so as her cancer progresses.

What sort of timeline regarding prognosis has the hospital given you? You should be thinking of getting your mum's GP involved so that you have district nurse/ hospice care on standby should it become needed.

Does she live on her own? When does her treatment start?

There is a very useful thread HERE covering how to prepare for treatment. Not all of it will apply but it will give you a guide

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Thanks so much for replying I hope you’re doing ok. They have said curative a reasonably high percentage. They haven’t said about a feeding tube yet but said it may be a possibility. They have said four weeks five times a week. Initially was surgery but now it was 3 weeks which wouldn’t be curative or 4 for a better chance. She decided 4 but I’m not sure how she will get through four. I have a brother but he is phobic of hospitals and travel so it’s all me. I’m trying to be positive but I feel the weight of the responsibility alone right now. 
the doctor is calling next week about care and district nurses. That’s my worry she is 81 and it’s a lot even for fit people. A friend just went through this and he was a lot younger 

You can only do your best. Try to get as much in place as you can. I would really be pressing to have a PEG. It would make life much easier for your mum. Hugs