Hi Everyone,

Last Friday I received a telephone call from a Consultant in Acute Medicine to say he had my mum's CT scan results (she was admitted to hospital for one day the previous week with sharp pains in left side which now have gone to right) and that he thinks she has lung cancer (4cm lump on right upper lung area) and it will be incurable. Going to see a Respiratory Dr tomorrow face-to-face appointment at Respiratory Clinic. Mum has a very slightly hoarse voice (had for a couple years) and slight niggles/pain in her right back other than this she is fine in herself.

I live with Mum (and my partner) and have done for that last 8 years (previously we worked together in my B&B and she stayed for lots of weeks on/off for 10 years) so we are extremely close/best friends. I unfortunately do not have children so my Mum has filled that space, I really do not know how I can cope without a life with her not in it. I can not bear to see her upset and I know she is struggling with this news as she wants to stay living and she is so unselfish she wants to stay living too for me. I have the most wonderful Mum and I know I am absolutely blessed.

I'm scared about tomorrow what they are going to say. I'm just praying there are options, maybe a biopsy to determine things and hope for treatments to keep her here for longer in relatively good health. Has anyone else had similar with lung cancer that can give me hope.

Hoping anyone going through similar can share their experiences with me and we can suuport each other.