My Mum has been diagnosed with Metastatic Breast Cancer but doesn't want to talk about it. Is this normal? I want to discuss it so find it very frustrating but I don't want to upset her. Any advice please.
So sorry to hear about your Mum. She's talking to us, we can use the word Cancer now and she's telling others. She read her notes prior to Oncologist phone chat and we discussed it before she spoke to him. Mum has Palliative Radiotherapy next week one session doing 2 areas. She's having anti sickness medication. We hope she doesn't feel too unwell with it. I can't be there but a family member is going with her. I don't live close by. Really hope we can soon all meet up and do some things together as a family. I'm finding it difficult not being close enough to go to these appointments with her but wouldn't want to unknowingly pass anything onto her.
Thank you. Mum has palliative radiotherapy next week, hopefully all goes well and we can meet up as a family soon. It's hard not being there with her but one of our family is going with her. She is now talking with us all and she understands how it is and we are all here when she needs us.
I am glad that your mum is now talking about her cancer and is due to have some radiotherapy next week. I am sure that she will feel better being able to discuss matters with you all and that you can all cope better now that you can all discuss things.
I can understand how hard it is when you don't live nearby. I had to fly home every weekend to se mu mum, made appointments with consultants, who never turned up, etc. Still, you are fortunate that another member of the family can accompany her to her appointments.
We found it handy to write down any questions we had between appointments. This ensured that we didn't forget anything important at the time of consultation.
I sincerely hope that all goes well with her radiotherapy. It shouldn't be long now before your family can all get together to make memories while you can.
