Long wait for Treatment

Have just been informed that there are no oncology appointments available due to clinic being full.   My husband was diagnosed in December, he was told earlier this month by the consultant that because he was in poor health that they would not give treatment as he would not be well enough to sustain it. The consultant said for us to come back in three weeks. My husband has worked so hard over the last two weeks to get more mobile so that he can have treatment, and I was eager to see if an appointment has been made, only to be told that no appointment is available and it seems to me that patients are on a waiting list and may or may not get an appointment.  Seems like a lottery, in the meantime we were told that without treatment my husband may only have a few months.  Cannot explain how let down I feel right now.

  • Yes of course cause we tend to listen to e wry word they say Dad gt Appointmrnts at 3 pm today so I will no more then appantly it’s to check his fitness why I do no no x lots of love bk to you and your family

  • Also you are entitled to a second opinion I forgot to tell you when we last spoke..All the best for today's appointment x

  • Aw thanx and I’m going to look into it cause dads 72 I feel and he feels he’s been wrote off 

  • Sorry also was just thinking about people living longer than told and I said in one of them until someone had had enough I think that’s so important cause we don’t want to see our loved ones in pain constant morphine with no quality of life especially when they use to be up and down like my dad likes to bet on a horse and have a pint in the afternoon and he cannot do that now so it’s like he is not himself also he used to travel 20 miles to come over for couple of days but cause the radiotherapy fused his insides together and he ended up with a stoma bag that hurts when he drives also knocked his confidence really bad where he never wanted to go out for nearly a yr and when he started to go out this bile duct cancer finally made a show after the couldn’t find it for a yr but we’re suspisious if only they found n treated it earlier suppose we cannot blame them as they are not god