On Thursday last week we found out my sister has terminal cancer, she is 42. She has battled different cancers for about 6 years. Just after Christmas it was discovered that the lung cancer had come back and she was put on a 6 month course of chemotherapy. Last week she was too ill even to keep water down and was admitted to hospital. She's still there, we are waiting to see if she can go into a hospice or have a palliative care package at home. We've been told the cancer is back in her bowel, has spread to her bones and she has a tumour in her eye. They've advised us she may only have about two months. My sister doesn't want to know how long she may have and she believes she may have years, it is so hard to know the truth. There are four of us, we lost both our parents to cancer but am I terrible in saying this is totally different. Of course we were devastated when we lost our parents, my mum was only 52, but with my sister I feel so lost! She is my baby sister by 10 years, she has a young family, how will they cope, how I'll her husband cope? I just don't know what to do.
