Just been through this with the mother-in-law, initial diagnosis was breast Cancer back in 2003, went through a mastectomy and hormone treatment and got through the initial 5 years, sadly in 2017 it returned as metastatic breast cancer widespread in her bones and after discussion she said she wouldn’t have chemo, still we got a diagnosis of 3-5yrs.
Sadly she passed away on sunday just short of 4 years since it returned.
Extremely brave lady, but I must say the last 2 weeks were the worst, watching her, knowing she was dying just lying there slowly drifting away, it was beyond cruel! I find it a complete mind blow that we can put a cat or dog out of their misery, but a human we have to stand back and let time take it’s course.
Don’t get me wrong the staff in the Hospice were beyond reproach, but how they can go through that time and time again with patients and their familes tells me how special some of our NHS Staff are, and thank god we have them.