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mizz_fortunate

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  1. Hello! I am a 33 year old woman with a beautiful, loving mother who is dying from Lung Cancer. She is only 56 years old and was the picture of health prior to her diagnosis. She was a non-smoker, organic food eating, yoga practicing centre of calm in our family and now she can barely move around the house. I don't speak about her healthy lifestyle prior to this to infer that she is not like anyone else (prone to cancer), for us it was simply a matter of coming to terms with the fact that despite following all the health recommendations that are shoved down our throats from every direction, she is now enduring a painful, terminal illness. As you can probably tell I am in the anger portion of the 5 stages of grief today, mostly because it is Christmas and I spent the day watching her cry her eyes out because of the pain she is in. Here is our timeline: May 2nd: Tumor confirmed in her left lung. 4 cm with no apparent spread. Throughout May it appeared there was no spread anywhere else and her bone scan came back clean. In June they performed a pneumonectomy and removed her left lung. She recovered incredibly well and bounced back quickly though she was feeling pain in her shoulders and lower back pretty consistently. In November she went to her three month check up. Her voice was funny and they noted she had a paralyzed vocal chord. They did a cat scan and found three pinhead sized tumors in her remaining lung so they did a bone scan and found the cancer in 4 or 5 different places. on December 15th she started radiation and went for 5 rounds. That ended on December 22nd. We are feeling pretty discouraged right now and are completely new to all this. We are inexperienced in this severe of an illness and I am really feeling like I need support and a sounding board. I am not sleeping anymore and my relationship with my partner is suffering. We moved in together a month ago and have been together a year. He lost his father a couple of years ago so he is familiar with a lot of this but it is a heavy burden for him and I feel terrible. I feel like everyday I am waking up in a nightmare. I feel hopeless and desperately need some hope. Anyways, I am glad this is hear and am looking forward to chatting with some of you.
  2. I am new here so hello! I will also post an introduction post but want to get right to the point with this question. My 57 year old mom has Stage 4 LC with bone METS. She also only has one lung. She started radiation a week ago and did five sessions on three spots in her body including her skull, lower back and pelvic area and her shoulders. The treatments stopped on Wednesday this past week and she has taken it ok so far. On her worst day she took 40 mg of Hydromorphone throughout the day but has been maintaining at 24 mg a day. This includes two slow release pills of 6 mg each and then 1 mg pills throughout the day. Tonight she was in so much pain she was literally sobbing. There was no release from the pain whatsoever. We are going to speak to her doctor on Monday and managed to get her calm tonight. Does anyone know if this is a normal side effect of radiation? I know they talked about pain flare, would this be possible three days after ceasing radiation therapy. Does anyone have experience with this so I can give her some hope? Thank you guy so much in advance for your help!
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