Hello and good evening from Spain. I'm heartbroken, my mum was diagnosed with lung cancer and secondaries on brain and liver at the beginning of april this year. She was in the hospital for nine days while they made all the diagnoses..she was to have radiotherapy on her head for 5 days and then start chemo on her lungs. While waiting she was put on fortecortin steroid and by the time her radiotherapy began the week before last she was so weak, the meds gradually making her unable to climb stairs, use the toilet, get into and out of bed...I was her full time carer. We bought all the aids we could to make her life easier, knowing that once the meds were reduced she would start to regain her strength and lose her moonface...the radio went well and we were due to see her oncologist tomorrow to start the chemo. Mum was always thinking positive and never complained however much discomfort she was n. The nightmare began 3 days ago on Friday morning, she was howling in pain and couldn't walk, her stomach was distended and so we rushed her to emergency...hoping it was an effect of the steroid reduction or a water infection....oh no...she had a perforated bowel which we were told surgery was out of the question and would be better to let nature take its course...we were devastated afer all she had been through, she was going to die and die quickly...that was 3 days ago and she's now on a mixture of 4 drugs through a syringe driver, morphine being one of them. I don't expect my mum to survive the night, she has been so strong and patient. The doctors said to me when I asked how long...they said she is a strong woman. I know for a fact she wanted to live. She's 74 and we lost my Dad 18 months ago almost to the day...please say a prayer for her and pray for a miracle, although I think times run out on that one...xx