Hi

My Mum has been dignosed with Oesphageal Cancer which is terminal as it has spread. The thing is she is in the first round of chemo and is unclear how many she will have before another scan to see what it is doing. She knows it has to be a minimum of 2 but they have been vague beyond that.  Most things about the diagnosis she has been accepting and positive about but she is finding it frustrating that she can't plan anything in terms of trips away, even though we have a short one mainly booked for December, it was organised some months before  this came up. When we mentioned the trip we got a less than positive response from nursing staff, suggesting that we should not plan anything that far ahead! My feeling is she needs little goals and things to keep her positive. We are not planning a year in advance because we can't at this stage but we just hope that some medical people will offer some positive response sometime soon.