My father has prostate cancer with bone metastasis. Gleason 9. Hes started on hormone therapy and chemotherapy. I think he’s in a lot of pain because he is very bad tempered and lashes out at everybody over anything. he’s taking paracetamol for the pain but when I suggest he asks his doctor for something stronger, he rages at me.
he is mainly bed bound.
any advice how to deal with it? I’m in a different country and call every other day at least, but I’m increasingly scared to do so as hes in such a bad mood so much of the time.
I should add, my mother, his main carer, is of the opinion that pain is ‘curative’ and that to cure yiu need to feel the pain and that anybody with a lower pain threshold than her is a wimp (yes, apparently I don’t love my child as much as she loves me because I had a C section so I didn’t experience childbirth pain…).
anybidy else been/going through something similar?