My dad has GIST Xx

Hi

I am really sorry to hear about your dad.  I don’t have direct experience of GIST tumours but can understand how distressing it is to see your dad suffer.

Do you have support to help you?  I know that Maggie’s Centres provides great support to family as well as those with cancer.

It would also be worth speaking to the Cancer Nurse Specialist for advice on how to help your dad.  Eating can be a real struggle and loss of energy is so distressing.

The groups on this Forum for Family and Friends or Pancreatic Cancer may also give you support from those with more direct experience.

In the meantime sending you positive thoughts and hugs.

xx

My mother who is 61 has a stage 4 breast cancer takes medication for her pain and she too suffers from similar issues with constipation. My mother is very thin as well and has difficulty eating and she has told me her digestive functions are completely out of sync. 

My mother does not have stomach cancer, but it seems cancer in general just takes its toll.

Hello

I’m so sorry about your dad, yes it’s awful how quickly they deteriorate. My mums 61 and has GIST cancer, she has been fighting it for four years, her tumour is inoperable, she hasn’t been on any treatment for 3 months, time is running out. But I really do feel for you, having to go through this, my mum has been messed around by doctors and professionals, had an operation cancelled in the past, and we think, if that operation wasn’t cancelled, they would of been able to remove the tumour, but it’s grown too much now. She is just skin and bone, so frail aswell. It just isn’t fair is it. Xx