My dad had a radical nephrectomy after Kidney Cancer. He also had Bladder Cancer simultaneously - unrelated type.
He was treated with Paz, after the KC returned, which stabilised and shrunk them. Then he was diagnosed with Primary Pancreatic Cancer, so the Paz was stopped, then the KC grew all over. He also has Stage 4 CKD, and AKI.
He's been treated palliatively only for a couple of months, and despite being more frail, has been OK. No strong painkillers needed, we thought he would last a while.
He stopped eating much and also stopped drinking tea (which he drunk by the gallon all his life), in the last couple of weeks.
He fell on Sunday and was taken into hospital. He is dehydrated and his electrolytes are all over the place. The doctor said he would be in for 2 days.
Today the palliative care nurse phoned mum and asked if she had anyone with her. She said that the next 24hrs are crucial and they're treating him right now, but he's not responding.
We've got an appointment to go and visit him (mum, Dsis and me).
On his notes it says that he wants to die at home.
They also said they did a scan and there is great disease progress.
Tomorrow it is a year and a week since Dbro died and dad seemed to give up after his "boy" died.