Stressed, nausea and sleeplessness my mum is terminally ill

It all started 3 months prior with bowel and stomach problems with my mum having stabbing pains, we took her to 3 different hospital over the course of the 3 months. They took her bloods and said her blood work when fine, but I knew something was wrong. 

Her pain got progressively worse over the 3 months and she had a CAT scan to see what was wrong. The results came back that she has a mass in her galbladder. She was told it was unoprable and terminal. It shocked me and my family to our very core, I mean she is only 61 which is no age. 

I've been getting progressively worse with stress and anxiety, often waking up at night with a hot flush down my body after coming round and realising this is realty and not a dream.

I feel sick, have nausea all day, random head aches and my eye keeps twitching.

I cant bare to lose my mum she is a wonderful human being, very kind and loving. Some days she is in agony with the pain and I feel uuseless. When I'm at work all I want to do is go and see her as much as possible.

-Alex 

  • Hi Alex,

    I'm so sorry to hear of the situation with your mum - I can only imagine how incredibly difficult this must be.

    I can see you've had a reply from one of our moderators to your previous post, so I won't try to duplicate any of that information. But hopefully my reply here will boost your post, meaning a few more people may see it and also reply.

    I hope that you have others around you that you can speak to about this, such as friends and family. Either way, the forum is always here if you need it as a safe space to write things down and reach out to others.

    Wishing you all the best,

    Ben
    Cancer Chat Moderator

  • Hello Alex :)

    if you read my bio my mums gallbladder cancer story is in there, I am a simular situation to you, surgeons at hospital have washed their hands with my mum.  My mum wanted to fight this with chemo but I don't see her having the chance now, shes had such bad luck.  I can't believe the surgeons and doctors would treat someone my mums age the way they have, and how they've treated me.  I keep watching my mum go down with infections and there is nothing I can do about it other than get her to the hospital, after fighting for an ambulance.   I am so sick with worry, doctor has put me on antidepressant tablets.

  • Hi. I hope you are keeping well. my mum was in a similar situation. I can only hope that you have been able to cope with everything since your post.

    Take care x

  • My mum passed away peacefully on the 2nd of February 2022 thank you for everyone's kind words, I'm managing to get by day to day but she never leaves my mind x