SCLC

Hi

I am so very sorry for your loss. It is OK to feel angry.

Please consider joining the 'Bereaved Family & Friends' group on here; the members of that group may be better placed to offer guidance and support than we are in this Group. Also you could talk to the good folks at MacMillan; the freephone number is 0800 808 00 00.

Please look after your own well-being; Your Dad would not want your understandable grief to make you poorly.

Kegsy x

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

I just wanted to say that I also feel your pain and anger.

My dad passed away on the 27th March, not even five weeks from diagnosis.

Although he was showing signs before Christmas, of being seriously ill, the GP misdiagnosed his SCLC for a trapped nerve in his back, and he was being seen by a pyshio therapist instead of having any kind of cancer treatment.

In February, by the time they had run all the relevant checks it had also spread to his spine and ribs, he was at stage 4.

By the time any treatment was offered (radiotherapy) he couldn’t even walk, he had 5 consecutive days of treatment and died two days after.

My dad was a wonderful man, and never complained once, about the late diagnosis or the late treatment. But I can’t help thinking had they have done more when he 1st showed signs of lung cancer, or perhaps treated him a little earlier, before the spread, he would still be here today.

So yes I feel your anger and frustration, although sadly that won’t bring him back. I am still far too emotional to deal with that anger, it just all happened way too fast.

My mum 73, was diagnosed November 19x with SCLC, she too had chemo, sailed through that 17 radiotherapy to the lung, 10 to the brain, she had a 7cm tumour in her lung, treatment was successful, lung and brain clear, but spread to her pancreas which is very rare, I am too so angry, it’s a cruel, horrible disease, I don’t know the prognosis but I know it’s not good! Struggling to deal with this rollercoaster ride!!