Hi everyone,
My hsband was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. This is all new to us. He isnt a candidate for surgery nor chemo. they have said its termnal with an estimated surival of 6 months. Tomorrow he is having an edoscopy to have a stent fitted to his bile duct to ease his jaundice. The rest is an unknown to him and me. A MDT was apparently meeting last Thursday to discuss treatment if any but we've heard nothing from them so far.
He was only oin hospital a few days and was allowed home on Good Friday with a bag of 3 meds and told he would have the stent the following Thursday. that was all the info we were given. I had to chase up the time of procedure only to find it had to be delayed because nobody told hubby to stop taking ceratin meds.
Any advice on what questions to ask when he goes for his procedure tomorrow. Any advice would be hugely appreciated.
The following has already been mentioned:
Ask for referral to Fast Track continung heatlh care
Contact GP for referral to community based care or palliative care nurse ( Macmilllan)
Any help on what is likely to happen going forward would also be welcome because I want to support hubby as best I can, he is strugglng to come to terms with it all and wont talk about it to anyone.
