My father is dying with advanced cancer of unknown primary
He has gone from someone climbing up a ladder in Feb to bed bound, confused, anorexic.
He was initially misdiagnosed with cholecystitis and there was a 6 week delay before they found the cancer, by that time he had massive ascites and omental tumours. He was offered palliative chemotherapy but the cancer was very aggressive, he spent a month in hospital trying to get symptom control by the time he got home it had spread to his liver and the oncologist refused him for chemotherapy.
Just feel so hopeless and angry how slow the doctors and NHS system is. I feel like my dad missed his window for chemo because of ineptitude.
I feel so sad, none of us siblings are married or have children so he'll never get to see any grandchildren, my mum is 10 years younger and touch wood very healthy and she will have to try to live a good chunk of her life without him.
Just have this horrible ache in my stomach constantly since we found out he had cancer of unknown primary, it's been so hard watching him go from walking and talking to bed bound in a matter of 3 weeks.
