Hi
I hope it’s ok for me to post here as I don’t really know where else I can go right now. Please forgive me if I use wrong terminology etc. I live very far from home and all of my info so far is second hand from my distraught mum
My dad has just been diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer which has spread to his liver, kidney (kidneys?), lung, leg and had “eaten away at his spine” so he’ll never walk. He got taken in to hospital with back pain and was told he probably had a slipped disc, so you can imagine what an utter shock this is for us all. We literally had no idea!
My mum has been told that chemo isn’t an option as he can’t sit up and they’ve done some radiotherapy, but I believe that’s to kill the nerve endings in his spine to stop the pain.
It’s not looking good is it...
I have so many questions going around in my head and I don’t really know what I want to ask. I guess I’d like to hear from anyone who has had a similar diagnosis and what the impact of not having chemo is on a life expectancy. I realise everyone is different and no one can tell me how long he has left but I’d just like to hear from people who know what we’re going through.
I’ve done what I shouldn’t and Googled but I can’t find anything about patients who don’t have chemo....
Thanks for reading if you got this far