Hi, today is six months on since I lost my dad to stomach cancer. I have never joined/written on a forum before, but I am doing this today in memory of my dad and to get answers for my mum. Having cancer, losing someone, at any time is devastating. I have had my own scares in the past, so know what it is like and being afraid. My heart goes out to all those on here now struggling to cope with what is happening and needing support and advice.
Our story is different. Despite having health issues and numerous appointments/checkups and scanning, the hospital diagnosed my dad's cancer two days before he died. By then it was too late. We are trying to come to terms with our loss, we have shielded my mum due to Covid so she is alone, we also have the many questions which were never answered. All we have is some basic information given to us in hospital, at a time when everything was happening so quickly. Reading/research is like going down a rabbit hole. So much to try and understand. I am hoping that I could get advice about where to look to understand things more, what other people have done, what helped, did anyone ever try getting a second opinion?
Whoever, if anyone replies/posts, I just want to say thank you in advance. Any knowledge, any advice just might explain things better. In some ways, I even hope that there is no-one out there who has gone through what we went through, but sadly I think there will be.
Bless you. X