Hello, my darling Dad is 71 years old and has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer. He was admitted to hospital as he had a dizzy spell and had lost a lot of weight. We thought it may be to do with a stroke he had 7 years ago. They did some tests and found a shadow on his lung which has turned out to be 10cm in size. The nurse who gave Dad the devastating news was lovely , however, there was no cancer nurse there and he just went back to,his hospital bed utterly stunned. I felt utterly traumatised when Dad was given this news and have been beside myself with worry for 3 weeks now as has all the family. My mum has breast cancer but thankfully it was at the early stages and she beat it. This feels so different , maybe because my mum looked so well and you just couldn’t tell she had it. Dad has lost so much weight and is frail and it’s as if he has really aged . It’s so frightening that I sometimes feel paralysed with fear and anxiety. I am simply not ready for this and am really struggling .
