This has been the most distressing week of my life.
In 2014 my Nan was diagnosed with breast cancer, she went through chemo and beat it. She regularly has check ups etc that all came back clear but over Christmas she was really unwell with a bladder infection. Her GP was to put it plainly useless. She was aching in her back and hip terribly, and he referred her for physio. After multiple trips to the doctors, last Friday, my Nan found herself unable to move because she was in so much pain. My mum called 111 and an ambulance was called. The paramedics tried to tell my Nan it was sciatica and reluctantly took her to A&E.
She was admitted to hospital where she underwent several scans and tests. A few days later the consultant broke the news to us that she has secondary cancer in her liver and her bones. He told us that we would try her on steroids to try and improve the liver but if that did not respond she would not be able to have chemo.
5 days later (yesterday) they took her her bloods and found that her ALP had doubled in a week and it was likely that she has weeks left to live.
My Nan is now home with us all around her, but she just doesn't seem like she has weeks left to live. She is still mobile and able to move herself round easily. She is jaundiced but not overly. I am utterly devastated by this news and in huge denial.
Has anyone else had this same experience of this type of cancer and do you have any stories to share of your experience. My Nan is terrified of dying and determined to keep fighting, I just cannot bear to lose her.