Hi, some of you might remember, so gots lots of kind support last year, but 18 months ago lovely lovely mil was diagnosed with cancer of the peritonium. Inoperale, but nevertheless responded excelently to chemo.
While in this time she has physically been well,, mentally she has found the dark cloud of cancer looming over her and bascially not coped mentally very well, been depressed and fearful, even the the chemo went to well.
Anywy, couple of weeks ago she's suddenly getting headaches, feeling dizzy, being sick etc. 3 seperate doc diagnose labarynthitus, a sort of very nasty ear infection.
She pushes and pushes, then they finally take her in, and find brain tumour
So now she's been transfered to a specialist hospital & awaiting op.
Dh was over last weekend, but now had to come back. Problem is very small family, Only sil & fil. fil scatty, obv very stressed out & scared. Poor sil is 8 months pg with 1st baby, under a lot of strain. Really freaked out about her mum
And there are we, in Switzerland, constantly waiting for phone calls, news, updates and getting very little, or fil getting confused and giving wrong information, or them just being too tired to call. It's really really hard being so far away.
Possibly having op tomorrow.
So have any of you coped with long distance illness like this?
And brain tumour? Doesn't sound too good, does it? 1st we're told they'd operate if it's primary, or is that secondary, um not sure, one or the other (this is the 'info' we get from fil), basically they either don't keep in touch or get mixed up and tell us it all wrong.