Hi, I’ve been directed to this group, this is my mums story so far;
She visited her GP 3 weeks ago about what she thought was an allergy to feather resulting in an cough and a slight sickly feeling in her tummy, this resulted in bloody tests and a quick referral for a chest and tummy CT scan. 2 days later a phone call for her GP advising possible lung and ovarian cancer. Further referrals to chest clinic and gynaecology, broncoscopy and EBUS followed by ultra sound scan. She has now been referred to gynaecology cancer unit for a 21cm complex mass and she has an appointment on Wednesday with chest consultant but she received a letter yesterday stating;
Metastic invasion, T4, N3 and M1c, while this doesn’t mean anything to my mum I’ve researched it and it doesn’t sound positive.
I’m just numb and not really sure how best to support my mum, any advice would be welcomed, thanks for reading xx
Hi stick together, and welcome to the lung group, but very sorry to hear about your mum's diagnoses. It is so very scary when a loved one is diagnosed with cancer, and it does make you feel very helpless. It is good that all of the test are now finished, and although this appointment on Wednesday will be very scary for you and your mum, at least you will both know then what is happening. Are you able to go with your mum to this appointment?
I can see that you have also reached out to the ovarian cancer group, but I wondered if you also would like to join the family-and-friends-forum where you will find people going through a similar situation as yourself.
Take care
