My mum is 77 and has lost a lot of weight over the last 5 months. This has culminated on Friday night with her having a bad fall and being taken into hospital. We found her on the bathroom floor having driven to her as she wasn't responding tophone calls.
She's had a number of scans, and the consultant has confirmed secondary liver tumours. The primary cancer still isn't known - Mum had an endoscopy earlier today, nothing was found, "something" was found in a subsequent CT scan, but being Easter, there'll be no further work/diagnosis over teh weekend.
Mum's confused, and obviously unhappy being in hospital - am absolutely dreading the conversation where she has to acknowledge this. I'm sure the discussion around LPA and DNR are also going to be strained. Any advice on how to have these conversations would be really welcome, thank you. Mum's not the easiest person to work with, is incredibly private and independent.
Hi steve1969 and a very warm welcome to the online community which I hope you'll find is both an informative and supportive place to be.
I'm sorry to read about your mum's recent diagnosis and I know what a worrying time this will be for the whole family.
I don't have the experience in telling someone that they have cancer, as I am the patient, but I noticed that your post hadn't had any replies yet. I hope you don't mind me suggesting that you also join and post in the family and friends group as you'll then hopefully connect directly with others who may have been in a similar situation to yourself.
If this is something that you'd like to do, clicking on the link I've created will take you straight there where you can then join and post in the same way as you did here. You can also join in with existing conversations by clicking on 'reply'.
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