Hello. I’ve just joined this chat today because I realised that it might be best to talk to people about my worries... people who understand me. I’m 17, and my mum was diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016. Then this time last year, we were told it was terminal and had spread to other places. However, we have remained positive throughout and she has been doing so well with her operations and treatment up until now. I’ve managed to cope really well with it so far, as well as I can. The thing that upsets me the most is the medication she is on. Because the cancer has spread to her spine, which is apparently quite a rare place, there is little they can do to manage pain and it’s really sore for her all the time. This has meant that she has had to go on methadone to help, which makes her SO SO sleepy. She is sleepy all the time. She sometimes can’t even keep her eyes open. This upsets me so much because things have been going so well up until now and we have basically been carrying on like a normal family doing the same things as we always have. But the new medication has completely put that to a stop and we can hardly do anything now :( I don’t know how long I have left with her and I don’t want her last few years to be spent asleep all the time. But I obviously want her to not be sore. It’s so hard. I’m only 17 and I have so many worries. I know there’s probably not a lot you can say to help me, but I just wanted to post to have a bit of a rant.
