Hi all, my wonderful Mum was diagnosed with gallbladder cancer in August 2020 at only 47 years old, she is now 48. She started treatment in September and by the time the treatment had started it had spread to her stomach. She responded well to the treatment the first time around as her tumour in her gallbladder had shrunk and it had also shrunk a little in the stomach. Recently though, she has been in and out of hospital, she had a blood clot not long after her first few sessions of chemo and a blockage in her stomach this week. as she has been so so poorly which we all just thought was chemo symptoms but now looking at it, i feel like some of the symptoms could be her in her final weeks or so of life. She sleeps nearly all day and night, gets really clammy and hot, doesn't eat or drink, loads of confusion. Today my stepdad had to meet with her oncologist who told him that he was stopping my mums treatment due to the fact she is so unwell and also although the primary tumour in the gallbladder has shrunk again, it has started spreading in her stomach. I didn't even know it was possible for it to happen like that. She looks so drastically different to how she did just a few short months ago, she has lost nearly 4 stone, she looks pale, tired, is so fragile, i am struggling so badly to see someone i love so much get so unwell. she doesn't even speak to me anymore really, she was so determined to fight this disease when she was first diagnosed and now it's like she has lost herself. i miss her so much already because i feel cancer has already taken her. the oncologist has advised my stepdad book her into a hospice now to get her pain under control. My stepdad is quite in denial in my opinion and doesn't tell me the full story of what was said in that room today because he doesn't want to believe it and i obviously understand that but am i right to think she may be in her final stages? could chemo really have done all this? she was allowed home for christmas day and slept the entire day, didn't hardly say two words, didn't eat a thing. I know gallbladder cancer is nasty but it's also rare so i find it hard to read up anything about it.

Warm wishes to you all.