poppy4 replied to the topic Bad news – no more treatment, sent home to die with dignity. What to expect? in the forum General 11 years, 2 months ago
Hi all,
Thanks for the kind words and advice. It turned out the decision about when to travel home was taken out of my hands after all. My parents travelled 300 miles to bring me home to see Gran in time. The hospital discharged her a day early as she really deteriorated on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning.
She is now home and pleased to be…[Read more]
poppy4 replied to the topic Bad news – no more treatment, sent home to die with dignity. What to expect? in the forum General 11 years, 3 months ago
My gran is 74 years old so not very old really.
She’s going to have nurse’s coming in every day and carers 4 times a day. I know her pain relief will be great so I’m not too worried about that.
I think I’m almost more worried about the rest of my family. I know in my heart how unwell she will become and how quickly it will happen but I’m…[Read more]
poppy4 started the topic Bad news – no more treatment, sent home to die with dignity. What to expect? in the forum General 11 years, 3 months ago
Hi. I’m completely new to this site and was hoping for some advice and answers.
My grab has had the tell tale chronic sore back for about 2 years and it was only 9 weeks ago when she took a fall and was admitted to hospital that she was diagnosed with myeloma. The plan at first was optimistic about starting chemo etc but unfortunately my gran…[Read more]