Six Months or Less - Cancer Message Board

Cancerwife · 08-23-2003, 06:55 PM

Well, it's official. The doctors told us yesterday that with Walter's condition as bad as it is, he's lucky if he has six months left.

We have decided to stop the chemotherapy and radiation and enjoy what time we have left together. The trouble is, Walter is severly debilitated by his cancer. Not the treatment, the cancer. The parts of the body it is affecting, the spine and the brain, not to mention the lungs and the liver (primary) leave it so that he can do very little without taxing himself to exhaustion. The other issue is his pain. I am hoping now that hospice is involved we'll be able to control it better or get him on PCA, so far he is rejecting morphine, he wants to be lucid, but most of the time he's in such pain he's not lucid anyway.

This may seem like I'm rambling, maybe I am, I don't know anymore. It seems like I don't know if I'm coming or going. I feel like I'm drifting. I thought with hospice it'd be easier, but it's not. Now I feel like I'm on the sidelines and I'm missing something. Missing out on something that is the most important thing I've ever done in my whole life or will ever do again.

I'm sorry if this made no sense, I just had to vent.

Dana

hollygirl05 · 08-24-2003, 12:10 AM

Hi Dana, I'm so sorry to hear about Walter. I know you must be going through a really rough time. I will keep you both in my thoughts and prayers. I may not be able to give advice or anything, but I'll be here if you need someone to talk to. Becky

delrae4753 · 08-24-2003, 09:22 AM

Make sure you contact the dr and request a consult from hospice you might even call the local hospice center in your town and see what you have to do at this point my thoughts and prayers are with you.

brendapk32 · 08-26-2003, 04:06 PM

Oh Dana, im sooooo sorry to hear about Walters condition. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, He loves you and does care about your circumstances.
Brenda†

kimzi81 · 08-27-2003, 02:02 AM

I think I posted this somewhere else, but now that your husband has decided to stop chemotherapy, I suggest you try the herbal treatments. After all, they cannot hurt him. My mother was taking Essiac tea when she had liver cancer. It was recommended to us by a friend who had liver cancer as well. In her case, the doctors told her there was nothing they could do because the cancer had spread too much. She decided to try the tea and she is now in remission. My mother took the tea and she returned to a normal color, her urine went back to normal, and she was slowly feeling better. But then she developed tumors in her esophagus and refused tube feeding so she stopped taking the tea, and any foods at all. I dont know if it will help, but I suggest you research it. It might help to alleviate some of his pain and other symptoms! It's a little expensive. (30 dollars a bottle) But it might work! Good luck!