Hey All,
iam Allie, iam 23 and my mum was diagnosed 2 weeks this coming tuesday with small cell lung cancer.
iam so scared about it all, and iam trying to be supportive for my mum, and iam listening when she needs and giving her a hug when she needs one, and have been to all of her hospital appointments,and am going to her first appointment with her oncologist on tuesday.
iam so scared they are going to tell us they cant do anything, we already know they cant operate, and if her lungs are up to it they want to do chemoradiation, but she's been a smoker for the last 45 years, and a heavy one at that, and she's not really in good health before this, that iam scared they wont beable to do it and tell us its not going to be long.
we all want to know how long they think it might be with and without treatment, cause at the moment, she's at the 'im in no pain or anything, so why go through treatment' stage and as much as ive tried to tell her it probably wont stay that way it just doesnt seem to go in. iam worried that because she is also suffers from schizophrenia and bipolar that its really going to affect her and she will get ill again, when she has been well for 6 years.
i mean whatever she decides i will support, even if its going to upset me to do.
can anyone give me any advice? i never thought id have to go through this, watching my mum go through this at such a young age.
i dont think it helps that her own dad died of lung cancer at 68, and my mum is nearly 61, so its just reminding us all of him etc.
iam so scared and i feel so alone aswell.
Thanks
Allie
xxx