On 11/27/2007
dawnmarie wrote:
Hello Everyone!
I am new to the board but I need your help! My ex sister in law, who is my bestfriend, was diagnosed with liver cancer in december of 06'. Well we are coming up on december of 07' and she is still here. Unfortuantely not doing very well though!...She has been going for weekly treatments of chemo since last december and for a long time it kept the cancer from spreading. When she was first diagnosed, the doctors told her that the cancer completely consumed her liver in a months time and that she would only have 3-6 months to live and that was only if she did the chemo. Well like i said, it is just about a year later and she is still here. She was admitted into the hospital on halloween because she was having "stress related seizures" the doctors told her. She came out and they stopped the chemo for a couple of weeks, to give her time to get a little better i guess.....anyway, thanksgiving day she was admitted again, this time she was having difficulty breathing. The doctors finally did a c-scan and they have found that the cancer has spread to her lungs. They can't do anymore testing because her body is sooooooooo swollen! This is a woman who weighed 350-400 lbs before the cancer, in the last year went down to 180lbs,and right now she is laying in the hospital bed and is so swollen she looks like she weighs 700lbs!!!! She is also very dilusional. She keeps talking about her cat and she wants her cat. She doesn't have a cat, has never had one because she is allergic to them! She sleeps constantly, and when she wakes, she doesn't know where she is, or who anyone is around her. The doctors are giving her mom a run around. She keeps telling them to give it to her straight and tell her how long her daughter has, but all they say is they are putting her on a new pill that will help shrink the tumor, and give her less pain, and then they will go from there.!!!!???? She is also very jaundice. Can anyone tell us if this is it? Is this the ending stage? And if so....how long do we have aproximately?? We are so desperate for answers and the doctors are useless!!!!
god bless you all,
regards,
Dawn
Hi there it has been 8 months since i have lost my dad to liver cancer and can i tell you it is not getting easier.I am always on the net trying to come up with why and what if and what else i could have done to help my beautiful dad. today i believe anywhere you go doctors wont tell you the truth or give you a time frame. i dont want to upset you any further but from the sounds of your sister inlaw it doesnt look good and i from experience believe you should spend as much time with her as possible because i think she is nearing her end. i am sorry to tell you this but once the liver starts breaking down thats signs of the end. i wish you all the very best of luck and my prayers are with you. My dad didnt have that long all in all it all happened in a matter of 10 weeks from start of illness till he passed the weird thing is he was so healthy before that,it shocked me completely i thought he had a gall bladder infection when i first took him to the hospital and then we got mucked around after all the tests some said cancer others didnt he deteriorated right in front of me. i couldnt to anything to help him. i offered to pay the doctors top money to make him better but in the end no money nothing they could do for him and they never told us how long. God i miss him so much my life has changed since my dads passing i am so angry and empty. i am sorry this is happening to your sister in law. take care