Hello everyone, I’m new here. My Mum was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2020. She did have two chemo sessions but even on a very low dosage, she couldn’t tolerate it, so the hospital decided no further treatment was possible.
The chemo and the cancer unfortunately caused a huge blood clot on her lungs and also a bleed on the brain. She was given only a few weeks to live in March this year because of the blood clot / brain bleed. She has survived and has been doing really well since then thanks to daily blood thinning injections.
In May, she fell and broke her right hip and underwent a hip replacement.
in July, she had a weird turn, when her temperature went through the roof and she seemed to just go a bit vacant, unresponsive and was sick. She ended up in hospital diagnosed with a water infection. She left a week later, having received antibiotics and apparently OK. However, these episodes have happened often since (at least 9 times now). At first these episodes came a couple of months apart but it happened three times in the last two weeks in November. I only picked her up from hospital a week last Friday and it’s just happened again tonight; again, she’s been taken back into hospital.
Can anyone offer any advice as to what is causing these episodes? She is always given a course of antibiotics, is told she has “an infection” and sent home for it to happen again. I really don’t know what to do next. She now isn’t getting the chance to recover before it happens again. Apparently, the cancer has not spread or grown.
