I am the sister of Beth, I discovered this forum while reading the website. All tips, advice and anything else on how to help come to terms with our diagnosis will be greatly appreciated.
A little back story – our grandad had a fall in Jan 2015 which found fractures in his back. After a year of being in hospital, rehab and moving him out of the home he had lived in for the last 50 years and into sheltered accommodation, me and my mom took him for a scheduled Mri scan. The radiologist wasn’t happy to send him home and admitted him to a&e, so after a long wait there, we met a consultant from the orthopaedic team. Fast forward again 3 days, we met with a spinal surgeon who had, all being well with the afternoons ct scan and grandad a consent, had spinal surgery planned for the following morning. Surgery went ahead as planned and recovery is going well. This was 2 weeks ago, and today we recieved grandads diagnosis of Myeloma.
Our current plan of action is to get grandad recovered from the surgery, and then have radiotherapy, and with grandads consent, chemotherapy. Obviously as a family we are going to do all we can to encourage grandad to accept the offer of radio and chemotherapy, but ultimately it is his decision.
He is at the wonderful age of 82 and a bit confused with all of the information he has recieved.
Thanks again,
sarah
