Since March, my asthmatic mum had extreme pain under her breastbone. Her dr treated her for neuralgia. After 2 months they paid for a dr to look. They thought it was her bones, did several scans and couldn't find anything. She was referred to a pain clinic, which she was waiting for when rushed into hospital last week as she could not stop being sick. She has lost a stone in 1 month, and when I saw her two weeks ago she was breathless, blaming her asthma. She was also told she was anaemic in September, after having pain in her back and tests showed anaemia and a urine infection.
after several tests, they said she has a tumour blocking her stomach at the top where the oesophogus meets. She has been sent home from hospital on a liquid duet and told she has to wait for consultants to meet, which will take over a week. She asked no questions because she was in shock ( my dad was not allowed in with her, and she is deaf in one ear). I live 140 miles away and they have no support.
I feel completely helpless. Is waiting this long,, when someone cannot eat, normal? How on earth was a tumour missed? If this has been growing since March, what will be the chance of surviving this? I am not ready to say goodbye. She is 71 next week and we could not celebrate her 70th due to lockdown last year. Please can someone with experience of stomach tumours answer
