My mum has had her second chemo and she's being really difficult. At the moment we're not talking as she's in such a mood and we just keep on arguing. I try to be reassuring and tell her that everybody gets side effects and that it's worth the temporary discomfort if it means getting rid of the cancer, but she just gets angry at me and makes out that she's the only person to have side effects. I feel that I can't say or do the right thing. My mum's been saying really nasty stuff to me as well.
My brother feels the same way and he said that mum has been giving it to him in the ear as well. He said that mum even mentioned rejecting having immunotherapy because of fear of side effects; we hope that she doesn't mean it. I said to her that if she doesn't take immunotherapy that I will refuse to talk to her and will tell her friends (some who are in the medical profession) to convince her to take it. My brother and I feel that mum is so lucky being elligible for immunotherapy.
Does cancer cause loved ones to be nasty? A woman who I work with, her mum has been through cancer and she said that chemo made her really nasty.
