Hi,
Can anyone help please?, My father has secondary liver cancer which has come from the upper bowel(no symptoms) and has now spread into the stomach, thus blocking it completely. He has had a stent fitted ,over 10 days ago now. He was discharged from hospital 5 days after operation but had to be re-admitted with severe pain even though he was dosed up on morphine. He has spent another 9 days in hospital trying different pain relief. He has had many other tests, one to make sure stent not blocked or wound infected , chest x-ray etc( I cannot fault his medical treatment), also I think he had a chat with a MacMillan nurse(Its like a hospice nurse), not sure what they have said to him. He was discharged from hospital yesterday. I rang him and spoke to him saying "Are you pleased to be home?" and he sounded rather flat. I have just rung today and my Mother said she had not slept hardly any last night as my Dad wanted pain relief every two hours and that he now has a pain in the back, (He thinks incurred from the journey home from the hospital, bearing in mind he has no fat on his bones). He has said to my Mother he is not getting out of bed, not even to sit in his favourite chair. My Mother sounds down as she thought at least he would be able to just enjoy being at home. The hospital would not have discharged him if they didn't think he was fit enough. All he keeps saying is " Look at my thin body" (its heatbreaking to see, my Dad was a thin man before this disgusting disease got hold)
Why do none of the pain relief seem to work on him? I think he is fighting it has he never likes to go to sleep.
He seems like he is more relaxed in hospital.
He was diagnosed in September, had two lots of chemo but was too ill with vomitting from the stomach cancer to have any further treatment.
Is this normal coming home behaviour ? Has it made it more real to him at home, that he is going to die?
I just don't know the answers. Please if anyone has experienced anything like this I would be grateful to hear from them.
Gail (England)