My Mum was diagnosed in 2005 with DCIS. She had a mastectomy but no further treatment was needed as her cancer was such a low grade and the believed it not to have spread to her lymph nodes (they were tested).
Now 3 years later she has just been diagnosed with bone cancer in her knee. We are awaiting test results from MRI and CT scan which she will get tomorrow but her oncologist is almost certain it is secondary from her DCIS.
My poor Mum has been in such a bad way. She has been suffering from excruciating knee pain for the last 6 months. She underwent surgery for another diagnosis back in July but this didn’t improve things, hence they did further tests and found the cancer. SInce then she has found the pain unbearable to live with. She has also been getting other symptoms as well, such as she has almost lost the use of her right hand, her speech is slurred, her mind is all over the place and she is so forgetful and confused. She wakes up with a headache every day and gets shooting pains in her head on a regular basis. She is very depressed and gets angry with herself all the time for being so useless.
I am so worried that cancer has gone to her brain as well and what that will mean. I just wondered whether any one else had experienced these symptoms as well. Could it just be the pain and stress which is causing this? I am so scared for her and for myself and my family, I don’t know how we would ever get by without her if the worst were to happen. I find it so upsetting seeing her suffering like this and I’m worried that she is too depressed and tired to fight it.
I know everyone on here is so brave and will tell me I should not be thinking the worst. I know I need to be positive and wait and see what the results bring in tomorrow. I just feel so helpless.
Thank you for listening.
SunnyBear x