Hello. I wonder if anyone has had anyone close to them diagnose with this disease.
My husband was diagnosed in December 2019.
This came as a devastating shock to us all.
He was due to have an ablation of the heart, when a chest x-ray revealed a mass.
A biopsy revealed the above. A pleural drain was in for 6 weeks
Since the diagnosis he has never been out of pain
He did not opt for Chemotherapy, just for palliative care
Neither did he want to know the prognosis.
I was told that it is stage 3B, aggressive, incurable
This has hit us hard, and my husband harder. He has hardly moved from the chair since diagnosis, and is now in a profiling bed in the lounge
Appetite and fluid intake are very little He is sleeping most of the time.
Weight loss is rapid, it is heartbreaking to see
Always a man of very few words, he hardly speaks now Drugs have meant that he has lost much of his voice
He is on 2 antidepressants, Morphine and Methadone.
I am wondering if anyone has experienced this at all.. We are very worried for the future and whether we can help him in any way.
Obviously Covid 19 has meant we cannot go out
My daughters and I are so worried, we don’t know what to expect so that we can help make him more comfortable.
Any help/advice will be most helpful. Thank you in advance
