My Mom was in Florida this winter and I visited her in the middle of February....she complained of feeling tired and I noticed she wasn't eating as much as usual. She came back to Jersey on March 17th and I decided to take her to the hospital on March 20th because she was pretty tired and out of it. She complained of some travelling pains through her body and pains beneath her breasts. They found through her blood her liver enzymes triple what they should be and after a CT Scan found a large tumor on her liver coming from stage 5 pancreatic cancer.
She passed away on May 11, 2005. I was with her non-stop from the minute of being told of the spread to her liver until the minute she passed. She was 76, white, never smoked, and otherwise basically healthy and full of life.
I never knew that because a 76 year old women feels tired that it would mean she'd be dead in 2 months. I am destroyed by this and in need of help. She was my best friend. I can't believe something like this could happen but I know by talking to people that it's not that unusally with this type of Cancer.
I have prayed but sometimes I feel so lost.
It is a horrible illiness.