hanabana24's blog

Hello again everyone,

Had to share my exasperation felt today with the place my mum is at - it says 'hospital' outside on the board, but I have my doubts.

My mum had her PET scan on Monday and the lung cancer nurse rang yesterday to say that it's 'inoperable', basically explaining that it's attached to 'central nodules' (in other words, they can't remove the whole thing). They said she can have chemo, but to be honest she is quite anti-chemo as she doesn't want to be made ill when the prognosis is so poor anyway.

My mum had a chest x-ray on 3rd September 2008. The following morning, while at work, the GP rang to say Mum needs to see a chest physician within one week as there is a problem with the x-ray. I went to see him on the Friday (5th) and asked him if it could be lung cancer, as, if I'm honest, that was my first thought. He wouldn't say, but said it's a possibility.