Hello guys, I've been a group reader since my wife was diagnosed with kidney cancer in march this year, she had a ct scan which found a 12cm left tumour, enlarged lymph nodes and a few 1 cm lesions on her lungs.
she was very weak needing two units of blood then a further 4 units two weeks later, she was started on Pazopanib 400mg, dexamethasone, urologist said she was to weak for op. but she just got weaker lost more weight, then in June whilst having a oncology appt she suffered a seizure, admitted into hospital for head ct which was clear.
a week later she suffered another seizure, on way into hospital she had another in ambulance, whilst in ed she had another head ct and abdomen scan which showed that she was not responding to the treatment and her kidney tumour had grown to 14.7cm and her lung mets had doubled in size, not the news we wanted, but she was determined to fight this cancer, she had a total of 9 seizure in two weeks.
she had a oncology appt which she could not attend but i did only to be told she was now terminal and only had days left, i never told her this, she passed away a week later at home with me by her side and holding her hand.
it was very quick only four months from first diagnosis, but this group was very informative for us, i would like to say it helped me to understand what she went through.
she did not have many symptoms just fatigue and some back pain, she just put it down to age, she was only 48
