My mum has severe dementia. On a recent admission they thought she had a partial bowel obstruction with dilated loops of bowel on X-ray. They decided not to investigate any further because they would not be able to treat.
The GP has since told me that they are fairly sure she has cancer but no point in formally diagnosing because we’d only have to live with that knowledge. (??? What does she think I’m doing now?!?)
She has abdominal pain on the right side, recent swelling abdomen (noticeable but not massively so) and diarrhoea interspersed with explosive wind and pencil thin poo)
So we are faced with an unknown future....my very elderly father is providing 24 hr care with only me to support. This includes dealing with lack of sleep and incontinence and now this curveball.
I want a diagnosis so I can adjust to whichever future we face (neither is good) but it would help us to prepare and ask for appropriate palliative treatment and support if we knew whether it was short term, long term etc.
Can anyone give me any advice on timescale??
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Life-limiting illness
Bowel cancer not being treated. How long?
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ILovePierceBrosnan · 02/08/2018 22:28
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