I am in absolute bits.
my mum was diagnosed with stage 2 breast cancer a few years ago which we believe she was given all clear.
however, since october my mum has been falling over, going funny, headaches. A lump appeared on her neck in the summer and was fobbed off for months. Told wasnt cancer and just a rogue gland. (This was mentioned many times even with ultrasound scans on her neck)
however before xmas, my mum looked like she had a stroke. Her left side went lopped sided including her face. Her back went she was in agony. I spoke to doctor for a 2nd opinion as she was told it was sciatica. The doctor did a referral for ambulance to get my mum and our world shattered in January of this year when told she had tumours in her brain. A week later, further tests found dark patches on her lung. (But she was told is didnt look cancerous, but wanted to check the small lumps on her chest cavity for cancer.
another week later to be told the lung had a new kind of cancer.
last week they said they couldnt operate but would do chemo to reduce it.
today... she was told she had months with chemo.
we feel we have been failed by all nurses and breast cancer clinic at the hospital.
after all the symptoms, including after her breast cancer and having lumps up her arm pit and then her neck and pain.. to be told it was just side effects and scar tissue!!!
shes just turned 57, she has no life insurance, no funeral care, cant afford her mortgage payments as off sick.. no help.
my world is crashing and I dont know what to do.
I am caring for her best I can, my dad had to go on sick to help with my mum with her personal care and needs. Hes 64 and shouldn't have to deal with this, no one should
why isnt there a bloody cure yet?