Jessigriff

Thank you all so much for your kind words. My mother is on decadron to reduce the swelling. She did have WBR done for preventitive measures. It still found it's way there though. She also did Topotecan which did not help, which followed her Radio surgery to the brain performed at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon NH. She initially started with Cisplatin and Etopocide? to begin with for her original lung cancer. The anti seizure Meds she's taking is called Depokote. And she will be starting a new round of Chemo tomorrow. i'm not sure of the name since she won't talk to me right now. The Dr's made her wait a month between these last chemo treatments because she was so run down. Her Potassium levels became dangerously low and she needed repeated shots of Procrit and Neulasta. She is just so weak I'm not even sure she will be able to make it through another round of this. I guess I have been preparing myself for the worst and praying for the best. Thank you so much for listening it really helps.

I just want to know if anyone has experienced this themselves or someone they love. My mother was diagnosed with sclc April of '04 and was diagnosed this march with brain mets. She had Radiosurgery performed on the 3 brain tumors in June. But, at the last MRI it showed that the tumors are 2-3x's bigger than before. There is really not much else the Dr's can do for her. She will be starting a new round of a different Chemo next week to try and help the returning tumor in her lung. She has gotten really nasty. One of the tumors is affecting her mood and the Dr says that anything she says from now on is not her. But it is so hard to deal with. She is a completely different person. She is hateful to everyone totally not like her. She looks completely different. She is paranoid about everything she locks herself in the house and won't let anyone come in. She is having seizures and shouldn't be alone. But, she feels that me and my family are like a team against her. We all love her so much and she is pushing us all away. She was livid when she found out that I met my dad for lunch. She acted like I was another woman having lunch with her husband. I just needed to talk to him without her there because i needed to know what was going on since she has completely shut me out. I really think that she needs hospice at this point. She can hardly walk. But she refuses. If we can't take anything she says seriously then when do we know when to step in and take over? I don't know but, thank you for listening I really needed to vent!

My mother was diagnosed with sclc in April of 2004. Just this past March she was diagnosed with Brain mets. She has 3 tumors that affect her mood, vision, and motor skills. She has become sooooo nasty to everyone. It is so hard to deal with your mom dying and to boot have this woman you love so much and who loves you so much be so angry. She just comes out of no where and knocks you down emotionally. My mom was always like my bestfriend but, now I can hardly stand to be around her because she is so hateful. It is really hard but her Dr. has told us that anything that she says now is not her it is her tumors. With that in mind it doesn't make it any easier but at least helps me get over it a little.