Hello, I didn't want to do this, but I feel I have nowhere else to turn.
My mum got diagnosed with metastatic lung cancer in August last year, that spread to the breast, lymphnodes, spine and more recently, brain. She was late being diagnosed due to covid. She's had chemo and radiotherapy, and the tumours are apparently stable and not growing, however she is deteriorating in front of our eyes.
The medical team have never once been straight with answers this whole time, and because I live in another town I never get to hear what they say, it's.always passed on so I'm never 100% sure if it's accurate.
Mum recently got rushed back into hospital due to a very bad chest infection bordering on sepsis, and she's still there, before this she lost the ability to do things for herself, and lost control of her bladder too. It started as pain and spasms, then numbness in her extremeties, doctors put this down to low potassium and magnesium, which she's had before and supplements helped, whereas this time they haven't.
She is CONSTANTLY confused and dosy, she's suddenly starting to sleep all the time, and so deep she can't be woken, which is worrying in itself as usually she's not a great sleeper.
She's stuck in hospital with no clear plan, her symptoms seem to have cleared up and she's had the antibiotics but still no word on being discharged. The doctors have however said that her body is now too weak for resuscitation.
Basically what I'm trying to get at here is I'm struggling with the unknown, is this the end nearing, it's so hard not knowing what the doctors think, and it also doesn't help that her family have turned against her and are saying she has Munchausen disease, clearly not!!
I just don't understand why were being told after a recent CT that her tumours haven't progressed in months (obviously brilliant news but hard to digest due to the circumstances) and yet she's not herself anymore, is the cancer beating her now?
So much waffle I'm sorry but I just had to get it out.
