Hi All, not sure what im looking for while writing this, but maybe some answers of help or justice or something !

My older sister hurt her back in Decemeber 2014, it became so painful she ended up bedbound for weeks with her doctor prescribing her antibiotics... and paracetamol stating she may of pulled a muscle or it could be ...something else. She could not walk and ended up in hospital mid January and diagnosed straight away with a UTI. They treat her for this and took blood test and a CT Scan, which revealed she had cancer.... then they sent her home... and that was i, literally. extensive metestatis or however it is spelt.t ! No mention of further tests, what it could be etc. They wrote a letter and made an appointment for a CTscan to delve further 2 weeks after discharge, but she never recieved this letter as mid February she "Crashed" an ended up back in hospital where she needed 4 pints of blood. At that point her husband was summoned into a room and was told she had days... yes days to live and if he wanted they could get her stable enough so that he could take her home to die. She is 43 years of age. He had to break this news to her mother, father, son and sisters.

Provisions were made and a bed was taken immediately to her home omplete with oxygen and medication. Macmillan nurses and district nurses. She had a driver attached for consant morphine so on and so forth. Moving on to a week later... a senior macmillan nurse requested a second opinon from the hosptal stating the she was on the up rather than the down and this was not the ususal pattern.for someone who had been told by 5 consltants that she had days to live. A diffrent consultant came to her home and examined her and immediately began to ensure tests (yes proper tests) at this point were carried out. After biopsies, scan and blood tests and information of where the cancer was... liver, bones, breasts, diaghpram, lmpyh nodes, basically all over her body, all secondaries, they could not find the primary,

After lots of tests they finally told her the news on Monday. The primary is Melanoma which has spread to her organs, however, they believe it is all treatable. Absolutely fantastic news and we are totally over the moon..... now the anger sets in. How can 5 consultants sit her husband down and tell him to take his wife home to die without performing these tests... it took a macmillan nurse to see that something was not right. She has had this to fight and she has done an amazing job with no treatment for five months and the fear of all of this hanging over her and wondering why no one wanted to help her in the first place. The Macmillan nurses are amazing and are not recognised enough. Had my sister been someone who may not of wanted to fight, this could of been such a different story. How can these consultants get away with this !! It is not right. She has previously hd moles removed and melonoma found in both oer 6 years ago was the last one, why did they not explore this avenue first !!! before they discharged her the first time knowing they had found cancer !!