Number1TraumaContributor
Fine To Terminal In A Month
Hi everyone, sorry guys this will be long. I’m 31 years old, and up until a couple of weeks ago, I lived with my Mum & Dad due to my own medical problems. Now it’s just me & Mum at home because 3 weeks ago, what Dad thought was a nagging sore throat, was diagnosed as a malignant cancer that had spread to his lymph nodes. Dad had also been an alcoholic for the past approximately 30 years and now had cirrhosis of the liver as well, which massively complicated things. We were told that there were no curative options for him and that his case was terminal. Their best guess was that he would survive a few months. Unfortunately Dad’s condition declined rapidly as he was unable to eat or drink and he was suffering complications from the cirrhosis, so he had to be admitted to hospital. He was there for a week or so and then came home. However once home he stopped eating and drinking again, and had to go back into hospital. Unfortunately today (or technically yesterday I guess) we got the news that they were going to stop ALL treatment, and I mean all - extra fluids, they weren’t going to feed him, pretty much everything. And he would likely be gone within a couple of weeks. But then later we got even worse news. There was blood coming from the mass in his throat and if they couldn’t stop it, it was possible he could either choke on the blood and die or just pass away in his sleep. So I then had to readjust my thinking from ‘my Dad will probably be gone in 2 weeks’ to ‘he might be gone tomorrow’. And I’m just not sure what to feel at the moment.
