My elderly Mum has been diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer for a year in her lung and rib bones. We learned recently that the hormone tablet she’s been taking (letrozole) had stopped working and she’s been transferred onto exemestane. However that came with the news that the cancer has now spread to the membranes in her brain.
She is suffering terribly with variable hearing loss; she wears hearing aids anyway but sometimes she cannot hear even with them and it’s affecting her mental health more than any other symptom she has so I’m desperate to see if there is anything I can do to help her. Doctors don’t seem to be particularly clued up or interested in this as a symptom - I know it’s not directly life-threatening as fluid build up in lungs is for example, but is a huge quality of life issue for her. Does anyone have any experience of brain metasteses dramatically affecting hearing?
I’d also be very grateful for any one else’s experiences of helping a very elderly person through brain metastastes - I’m not sure what to expect, or how fast things might progress, given her age. Everything I can find online seems to deal with much younger women…