Hi JoJoD1412

I am new to this forum but i am sorry about your mum & also i feel for you. I am in a very similar situation, although i have a brother & sister who have not had any input really with my mus illness, only me.This has for me been a very long road & a very stressful one too, although i am happy it has been a long road. My mum was diagnosed with lung cancer 17 months ago. She is 75 but very young at heart. She has had chemotherapy & radiotherapy. The cancer spread to her brain & she also then had radiotherapy on the brain area. She is at the moment on steroids & has been for some months to reduce swelling to her brain. She has had many many scans but her last results where on Friday which showed that the cancer had actually shrunk, still there but smaller which was great news. My mums problem now which has come on very suddenly is memory loss & confusion. It breaks my heart to see her this way. She is doing the craziest things around the home & i feel so sorry for her as i know deep inside her she knows. She sits & stares in deep thought & randomly comes out with something which makes no sense what so ever. We both have a good sense of humour luckily enough & have laughed at things, but the past 2 days i have seen a decline suddenly in her memory. I have not been told too much about this by any medical profession & have had to google it myself. There is help out there & support but i feel you have to search yourself or ask which i think is wrong. My mum has never had any macmillan nurses out to her only our community nurses once weekly. There should be no reason why they wont treat your mum as long as she is fit enough ie. as in weight & eating. After chemotherapy if this fails then there is always radiotherapy too so please do not loose hope x