Hi

My mum was diagnoised this having stage 4 metastatic cancer in her heart, left lung and 2 of her ribs. She is controlling her pain with alot of morphine and it's being under constant supervision. She has had one set of chemo which did control the cancer in those areas. How ever a follow up scan indicated that it had then started to grow. She has begun another set of chemo but her breathing has got worse and now has to go and have a mugga scan (sorry for the spelling). What I find really frustrating as I don't know what is to come, can she keep increasing her morphine? I know it's difficult to say how long she will have but has anyone else had an instance of this and how long was there loved one around for? 

She is at home and my brothers family moved in so they could give her constant care, but what does the future hold, what will happen??

We had a macmillan nurse once but they didn't seem to be that much use in helping us to understand what is going to happen. I really would like to hear other peoples experiences.