My mother was diagnosed with Ovarian Cancer in 2014. She had a radical hysterectomy and chemotherapy. The cancer has returned to her lymph nodes in her neck, so she was given further chemotherapy, after first trying hormone therapy. The chemotherapy was stopped last month as she developed shingles. Now she had a scan last week and she was found to have a blood clot so is being given blood thinners.
My mum also has Alzheimer's and is in a care home which has nursing care for both her cancer and her alzheimers. Shes is 81 and has lost interest in eating, painfully thin and doesn't recognise her family anymore, we all spend lots of time with her but she is living a very sad existence, I don't know how much more she can take.
Sorry don't know what I have come on here for, just need to let it out somewhere.
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Life-limiting illness
Secondary Cancer, Blood Clots and shingles
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Jenasaurus · 04/03/2018 16:13
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