My brother-in-law has stomach cancer

My brother in law is 44 yrs and is in the 4 stage of his stomach cancer. My mother in law is in denial of how serious his condition is. He had surgery in June of 2008 in which they remove is stomach and replace it with a plastic one. On Sunday 4/5/2009 he was admitted in the hospital because he was very weak and dehydrated. They gave him fluids. Before he was admitted he threw up eveything he put into his stomach. He also threw up some white stuff. Yesterday the doctors discovered a blockages.  The blockages was causing the fluids not to reach his kiddney. What cause this blockages?  They also found some red spots on his back and legs. What is the the next step we would see in him. How much longer he has? My mother in law is not explaining things right because she dont believe he is dying.

My condolences to you and your family about your brother-in-law. I too have stomach cancer stage 4, I have been receiving chemo for 6 months and now I have to stop because of the side effects. My guess is that it is good thing that the doctors felt surgery could be helpful. I cannot have surgery due to my tumors being too spread out. Also, a blockage is usually not a serious thing from what I am told. It can usually be unblocked and isn't necessesarily due to the cancer, but can be due to medication side effects etc. Hope it turns out well for your bro-in-law. Jeanne

I am really sorry for what you are going through.  Let me tell you my mom's story:

She was diagnosed with stomach cancer stage IV August 15, 2008 (no metastasis anywhere), had a complete gasterectomy August 30th and did not have any chemo or radiation.  In November her CT scans came out clean, and she was doing well.  In January of 2009 she started having some bile reflux and was vomiting "foam" like saliva.  She was taking Ensure all this time to complement her meals, but at this point she was not eating that much because of the nausea sensations.  She was taken to the hospital and was rehydrated.  I asked her doctor and he recommended another CT scan as he though her cancer was back because of her symptoms.  She also had a blockage (started getting constipated).  The results did not show tumors, but showed some liquid, some obstruction and her pancreas a bit swallen.  At this point the doctor confirmed that her cancer was back (even though the CT scan did not clearly showed) - he said there was a 2% change of it being scar tissue, so we went ahead and had a laprascopic surgery for our last hope.  Her surgery was January 30, 2009 and indeed her intestines were stuck to her abdominal wall because of the cancer and there was nothing else to be done but to wait.

My mom passed away March 2, 2009 at home with all of us around her and in a very peaceful way.  Amazingly she never had pain, all she had was reflux/vomiting her last 2 weeks.  Her last 2 1/2 days she did not vomit at all.  She did have constipation, so we started out with glycerin supositories, and when those didn't work out we started with enemas every other day.  He nausea medicine was also through a cream applied to her arms because she would not tolerate any medicine by mouth.  But, besides just being uncomfortable, she did not have pain and was lucid to the last minute.

I wish you luck and strength - just keep your faith in God, he is the only one that can help get through this. 

 -Wendy

Thank you all for your response.  Wendy I am very sorry for your lose. My prayers are with you and your family. You are right only God knows.I have more news about my brother in law. On the 4/8/09 he had the blockage remove. The doctors are sayig that they don't see any cancer. He was alway constipated. Now while he is in the hospital he is very highly medicated. Alway sleeping off and on. they are also giving him oxgen. Thay are feeding him jello and popsicles. Last night he pulled out his IV and oxgen. I know that the cancer has taken over his body because he have pains. The doctors told him last month on the 3/19/09 that they saw som red spots on his legs and back now thay are saying they don't see any cancer.

 

On 4/7/2009 Bahama Mama wrote:

My brother in law is 44 yrs and is in the 4 stage of his stomach cancer. My mother in law is in denial of how serious his condition is. He had surgery in June of 2008 in which they remove is stomach and replace it with a plastic one. On Sunday 4/5/2009 he was admitted in the hospital because he was very weak and dehydrated. They gave him fluids. Before he was admitted he threw up eveything he put into his stomach. He also threw up some white stuff. Yesterday the doctors discovered a blockages.  The blockages was causing the fluids not to reach his kiddney. What cause this blockages?  They also found some red spots on his back and legs. What is the the next step we would see in him. How much longer he has? My mother in law is not explaining things right because she dont believe he is dying.

Hello,

I am sorry to hear the situtaion, the same case with my brother in law as well he is at 39 years  doctors told him that he is having stomach cancer, so they went througfh the Surgery and removed the complete stomach after one month of the surgery doctors asked him to take a chemotherpay  he took  it and fater 15 days he is getting greenish fluid coming our from his stomach and he cant take any thing from mouth doctors took PET CTScan and they found that some blocakeges are there in the stomach and it metastaic stage 4 and they said it spread all over the stomach he is having sever pain in abdomen,

Can you tell how blockages  were removed for your brotherin law

 

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They removed his blockage by laser. But my bother in law died a week after which was the 4/17/09. His heart was to weak and he had somuch pain. I pray that all works out for your love one. Put God first.

They removed his blockage by laser. But my bother in law died a week after which was the 4/17/09. His heart was to weak and he had somuch pain. My bother in law had his surgery june 2008 and lived 10 months after.  I pray that all works out for your love one. Put God first.

they can put a stent.  that will only be temporary til the tumor takes over.  And stent should be done by one who is extremely experienced or he might bleed to death.