This is very hard for me to speak on things like this but I feel that I need to speak to people that have been through this situation. I’m 22 years old and my nanan was my world she brought me up since I was 3 weeks old. On the 2nd of August this year my nanan was diognosed with stage 4 cancer to both her lung, chest, spleen, liver, bones, lymph nodes, illaric creat (hip) and a 7.5 tumour in her brain. She was 62 She has been going to doctors appointments since February 2018 where they were treating her for siatica she had a number of blood tests, chest x rays, breast screening and follow up appointments for her weight loss which she was loosing each week. I am still angry that this was not picked up. The night before we took things in to our own hands we saw a doctor which explained that my nanans liver was “fine” her chest was “fine”...
how can this be fine when she had cancer from head to toe. I cared for my nanan and to see the person she had become was heartbreaking, I struggled. Sadly my nanan lost her battle on the 14th of October 2018. I had a total of 11 weeks which I will never get over. Doctors explained that the brain tumour had grown from 7.5 to 12cm and she had a bleed on the brain, they explained to us she would not open her eyes. But she did. as this was over the weekend there was no doctors to tell us and guide us through what was happening.
all the family and her dog was around her hospital bed but as she had her eyes open but was unresponsive for 2 days I just want to know if anyone has had any similar experiences where the doctors have told them, I just want to know if my nanan was aware or anything or did the bleed kill the brain cells and she was brain dead? It’s hard because I will never know if she knew we was there..
i am struggling each day as there was a massive mess up with the local GP as she attended 9 appointments and saw 5 different Doctors.
If anyone that has experienced an loved one with brain cancer I would just like to know if you had any information from doctors as we didn’t have this so we had to guess, we do not know if she could see us, we do not know if she was aware I understand every indiavual is different but anything that could help put my mind at rest??
