7 days from diagnosis to passing!

Hello,

My Dad started to feel unwell at home around the end of Feb. He'd lost his appetite and felt bloating in the stomach. In the space of a week he'd literally stopped eating. Eventually we made him go to A&E where he was then admitted and on 17th March was diagnosed with Primary Liver Cancer. We were waiting on treatment options but while in hospital he continued to not be able to eat and the swelling of the abdomen continued. Things escalated and by the morning of 24th March he had developed clots on the Lungs. That night he sadly passed away.

The abruptness of it all is just so hard to process. It is devastatingly sad and the pain is unbearable. He was taken away from us so suddenly. Has anyone else experienced this? 

  • I'm so sorry for your loss DKmp. cancer is one bar steward, Sorry about the way I have spelt it, but the forum admin won't allow rude words. my wife died last year from aggressive cancer, 6 weeks from the diagnosis. I know there are all kinds of cancers. but how is it they can find a vaccine within a year, to help you stop getting full covid19. yet for years and years were still no nearer to a vaccine for cancer. what causes cancer why does it devistate familiesI lost my mum to cancer of the spine, then two sisters also to cancer and two brothers to heart attacks. All four died with in a couple of months back in 2015. you would think loosing so many family members in a short time make me use to family passing away. No they all hurt equally. I now have my own cancer to battle against.  But when I read someones own loss due to cancer I feel  like I shouldn't be here when so many others on here have lost loved ones.

    So sorry for your loss and my heat goes out to you. 

  • My mum took ill at my house on a Sunday, admitted to hospital, diagnosed with leukaemia on the Monday and she passed away on the Thursday.  Looking back all these years later I'm glad it went so quick.  She was in her mid 70s and probably couldn't have had agressive treatment.  No time for her to worry over it, she didn't really understand what was wrong anyway.  Very peaceful end and I was with her.  Now I have cancer I sometimes think that when there is no hope of regaining a semblance of the life you had then a quick exit is a good way to die.  I take great comfort in knowing she was spared from being in continuous pain for a long time.  I know now she would have hated me wasting years of life in grieving for her like I did.  I honour her life by turning that sadness into positivity for living.  I know she's at peace now knowing I'm able to smile again.