My mum was first diagnosed in July 2015 with triple negative breast cancer she had chemo a lumpectomy & a lymph node clearance on her right breast & radiotherapy but unfortunately in March of last year (17) she woke with a sharp pain in her right shoulder that had us back & forth to the breast care team, her Gp & lymphodema Nurse.

She has biopsies, a ct scan & a bone scan but nothing was detected & it was put down to muscle pain she eventually got an ultrasound scan done on her arm (it was extremely swollen & had been for many months by now) on the 4th of July (17) and was sent straight to a hospital in Glasgow to see a vascular surgeon as she had an established blood clot she was prescribed apixaban (blood thinners) & was sent on her way but the vascular surgeon wanted to see her two wks later, we went to that appointment by this point my mum was in a stooped position & sweating profusely so the surgeon recommended Pregablin so away we went again, he requested to see us again on 24/8/17 at this appointment my mum was in agony & myself & my younger sister were in tears as she was a shell of her former self, thankfully the amazing surgeon recommended my Mum be admitted to his ward on the 28/8/17 he decided to carry out an MRI scan as that was the only one our Mum hadn’t had & sadly on the 3/9/17 it was discovered that the cancer had reoccurred and the tumour was on my mums nerves so we were sent from there to another hospital & my mum was started on Palliative Chemotherapy Paclataxil but fast forward till today 27/2/18 the chemo didn’t work & we have basically been told my mum has merely weeks left & we as family are inconsolable & heartbroken our wonderful recently turned 60 beautiful mother/wife/gran is going to leave us & leave a huge void in all our lives & I am struggling to cope & I feel like she has been failed massively & my faith in the NHS has gone!