Hello All,
My husband was diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer and had bone metastases 4 years ago. In January we had a sudden detained were told that it had spread to liver and that we ‘had months’. This deterioration has gradually got worse but has sped up the last week. He is in a lot of pain, unsteady on feet and sleeps a lot during the day. When he wakes we have some very confusing discussions but lucid moments too.
However during the night it is hellish! He is agitated, weepy, angry and this morning asked who I was and told me later that he thinks he can’t stay in bed because I am going to kill him. We are experiencing double figures of him getting out of bed and me trying to return him to it. He has fallen, will try to get downstairs, empties drawers, turns lights on and off. We are both exhausted and I keep telling myself, this is not my husband, it is the cancer but it is hard. I am scared to leave him in the house alone but need to to walk dog. I have resorted to switching cooker off at mains, so that he doesn’t do anything to hurt himself.
I have read that this lack of brain functioning could be a sign that he is moving closer to losing this battle. Anyone lose experienced anything like this. Any tips on helping him back to bed during an episode?
Thank you x
