where to start. Just before Christmas my wife started to lose her appetite, lost weight and developed a unshakeable cough. Initially we put it down to a winter cold and possibly flu. The condition wasn’t getting better and by early February we booked into the doctors....she never sees the doctors!
he immediately booked her in for a chest X-ray, this led to a cat scan and by early March we had a diagnosis of lung cancer. The cancer was in both lungs and described as incurable and inoperable. Blood tests, PET Scan, Lung function clinic, Bronchoscope, ENT appointment and stuff of the like have followed.
Her symptoms have been, a massive loss of appetite and therefore frightening weight loss. Her taste for food has completely changed. She’s now on fluids food supplement drinks and yoghurts. She’s finds swallowing solids very difficult. Consequently she has become very tired and her mobility is pretty shakey. My wife is disappearing and I wish I knew what to do. We’ve had a telephone call from the dieticians who say “little and often” and take in whatever you can.
The end of March was our last Doctor contact. We have contact with the Macmillan team who say we’re still awaiting some results and we need to wait till mid May when we’re seeing the oncologist and the team. I keep thinking about her deterioration over the last three weeks and I’m struggling with the idea that it’ll be another three weeks till we see someone.
question please, how do people cope with this, I’ve cried down phones, I realise the pressures everyone’s under but I feel so completely helpless. We have our 46th wedding anniversary tomorrow, we retired ten months ago, we had plans.
