My husband died of pancreatic cancer

My husband was always healthy he looked after me we were always together he got a tummy infection in December gone 2018 gave him antibiotics they asked him to go back in January for a scan on his belly they phoned that afternoon said doctor wants to see us so we went to be told he as a mass and we had to go for a ct scan we thought it was a ulcer or something two weeks later we had the ct scan but my husband wasn't well he was in pain I begged them to give him something but they said no they haven't got results yet that week I took him to hospital with his pain plus he looked yellow that's when they gave us the news it had also spread to his liver , but that wasn't giving him pain his bile duct was blocked because of the pain from that and where they left him so long he hadn't ate for weeks, it was just us waiting so after two weeks in hospital I stayed with him laid at the end of his bed I brought him home didn't want him in a hospice so this is where he died on the 17th March 2018 my first Christmas without him in 30 years he was 55 

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  • Hi Dolly, so sorry to hear of your loss. Please can I ask what your husband's symptoms were prior to diagnosis and how was his cancer discovered.?  I am waiting for some tests myself and fearing the worst?  

  • hi didn't really have any until it went to his liver, but how it started was he kept feeling bloated and a few pains when they said was probably acid, but they gave him a ultra scan and they phoned the same day said can we go straight to the doctors, when we got there the doctors said they found a mass on his pancreas, you could have floored me my Tommy is never ill they also took a poo sample said he also got a infection, anyway I said to the doctor do you think it's cancer he said he didn't know it could be just a cyst and that they going to give him a ct, scan we waited two weeks for that scan with me phoning every day to see if there was a cancellation when the appointment came few he had it done than there was the waiting again it was a nightmare, about four days later he started getting alot of pain I was begging the doctors to give him something for it but they said they can't yet because they didn't know what the mass was, two days later I noticed he was yellow so I phoned my brother in law and we took him to the hospital where thank god they gave him pain relief than they phoned thr to the other hospital for the results of ct scan that's when they told us it was pancreatic cancer which we knew nothing about,

    I lost it completely when I calmed down I thought OK maybe they will remove it bit of chemo he will be fine, they took him to a ward that night we had a doctor come round said the pain isn't from the cancer he had a duck bile blocked they took him down to unblock it, they said it's very common with pancreatic cancer, we had the mcmillion, there that's when they told us he had less than a year I was so shocked I nearly fell up the floor can't imagine what my husband was going thr I said in the hospital with him for the whole two weeks he was there than he come home on my birthday 2nd March two days later in hospital again with a lot of pain but that was because he had no bowel movements, than the last time he came home he was in our bed 3 nights and 4 "days, but what I do remember in, 2014,he woke me up in a lot of pain in his belly to be blunt it was coming from both ends than one year later it happened again, 2 o'clock in the morning like the year before so I said OK now your going to the doctors we did just to be told its just one of those things he never had no scans or anything

    I do think to this day if they gave him a scan in, 2014,they would have found it than so over four years it got a lot bigger and I lost my soul mate, I than waited till after the Christmas he passed and wrote to the doctor telling her that by not doing anything she killed him, she asked if I wanted to make a complaint I said what's the point it won't bring him back,, anyway hope this helped it did start with his belly and the stool sample oh and a couple weeks before that he couldn't urinate, if your going thr this now I will pray for you and please god it's not something serious god bless x

  • Hi Dolly,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to reply and for providing so much useful information.  I am awaiting tests to determine what is wrong but I fear that it will be PC because of the symptoms I am experiencing. Your prayers will be very much appreciated at this difficult time.

     

    Jo

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  • Hi Dolly,

    Thank you so much for taking the time to reply and for providing so much useful information.  I am awaiting tests to determine what is wrong but I fear that it will be PC because of the symptoms I am experiencing. Your prayers will be very much appreciated at this difficult time.

     

    Jo

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