Hiya everyone, my names Emma, 39, and I've been the carer for my partner since his first diagnosis of a rare head and neck cancer in 2008 that caused him a lot of long term chronic issues.
this Tuesday a CT scan showed up a 7cm tumour in the centre of his lung, a mass in the centre of his chest and 'something that looks like it's spread' on his T1 spine.
it's not been formally diagnosed, we are in the horrific waiting period, but there's more chance of it being cancer again than not. And this time as to where it's spread, it looks like a rapid moving one?
im currently at a loss. I've been doing this for a long time but it feels brand new and almost harder for me to manage? Does that make sense to anyone?
he has a clinic appointment on the 13th March that they won't bring forward even though he is seriously symptomatic with breathlessness and severe pain in his chest and back??
anyone else experienced this? I'm worried it's spreading and he's already on slow release morphine and oromorph. Should I push harder to be seen sooner and if so, how? So far I've called the consultants receptionist who refused to bring it forward and the gp says she can't do anything?
we've still got to go through biopsies and further scans to actually diagnose this so I want the chest clinic assessment to be done asap.... I suppose I'm panicking and not sleeping and just want this horrible 'hang around part until someone decides it's serious' to be over. :(
