My mum has terminal breast cancer and was told about a month ago she'd have around 1-3 months left. When deciding to "die at home" (which she is adamant about), we were told that the palliative team would support and oversee everything. My dad is of ill health too so we were grateful and reliant on this.
Fast forward a few weeks and things seem to be deteriorating fast. My poor, wonderful mum has agonising pain popping up in different places each week, new tumour lumps and can now barely move in the last couple of days. The nurses seem to just pop in once a day, look sympathetic and give her some morphine then go away again. I know they're incredibly busy and I get that but her pain hardly ever seems to be managed whatever we say or do.
Should we expect that she just dies in awful pain? Are we supposed to just watch he suffer and struggle on our own to care for her? I have my own small family and am round there as often as possible because my dad is not emotionally or physically coping with the care. The nurses and palliative team are all very aware of this but there doesn't seem to be any support or time to care that much?
Is there anything I can do ? Any experiences or advice would be amazing right now as things are just getting so hard for her x
