Morning everyone, soo glad to have found you people!
My dad was diagnosed 5 weeks ago with terminal brain cancer, it turns out it’s actually melanoma that has Metastasised to his liver, lung, adrenal glands and brain. Sadly… he is deteriorating daily. It’s all so hard. I had to tell him yesterday there was nothing they could do and to remove all medication as it’s just not doing anything. It’s a waiting game I guess but it’s so very rapid.
Anyone else looking after a loved one who is very ill with melanoma id be grateful to hear from I’m concerned how we move forward from here.
thanks for listening x
Hi Hollyhock18 and a very warm welcome to the melanoma group which I hope you'll find is an informative and supportive place to be.
I don't have any experience with looking after someone with Stage 4 melanoma, as I was the one who was diagnosed, but I noticed that your post hadn't had any replies yet.
I've done a search in the group by inputting 'stage 4' into the search bar and found these previous posts for you to have a look through. Unfortunately the way the search works means that it pulls up posts which mention either 'stage' or '4' so not all will be relevant to you.
I can see that you've also joined the supporting someone with incurable cancer group and although you might not find people specifically caring for someone with stage 4 melanoma you will find lots of people caring for loved ones with a stage 4 cancer.
Macmillan have a lot of information on supporting someone which you might beneficial to have a look through.
Sending a virtual (((hug)))
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