My lovely mom started acting bizarrely Nov/ Dec time 2021 and it got to a point where we thought it could have been mini strokes in her sleep or early dementia.. she was awaiting day surgery on her eye and kept saying she was getting headaches bad ones along with all the behavioural changes but said she'd she a doctor after eye op.. fast forward January eye op done , head aches still happening I booked her a doctors app sent for MRI & then kept her in mom was very vague about what they had said an me and dad just kept getting they think it's this they think that no solid answers they put her on dexametasone and she became usual mom again 2wks ago she was still in hospital under going tests they'd told her possibly lung cancer ( well that's what she told us ) but they had told her it was, then the day after she tells us they think I've got breast cancer so at this point I'm fuming and march down the hospital demanding answers to discover they've been clear with mom all along & they'd basically been trying to discover weather the breast or lung was the primary source as they knew the brain was definitely secondary and as it looked it was getting more of a definite that it started in the lung. She had breast cancer 15yrs ago an had a mastectomy, so I had to break to the news to my dad & ask mom weather she knew or wasn't understanding them and she said she was just hoping if was obviously still in shock & processing what they'd told her.
She's since been allowed home and tomorrow we have a meeting to find out if treatment can be given weather it'll affect her quality of life or if its a case of nothing can really be done but kept her pain-free & comfortable I'm scared stiff as this has all literally happened in a space of weeks I'm sorry for the long post she's my best friend & I already miss her and she's not even gone I'm so sorry for any of you going through any form of cancer it's awful
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