24/09/2024
Friday 30 August 2024 marks the second date that our lives will come to a screetching halt.
Walking with pain since 3 August 2024, I assumed it was side effects from the chemo tablets I had just finished the first cycle of.
My lungs started to feel like bags of cement probably a week before 3 August. I also had something out of place in my left buttox, as if I was sitting on a stone the whole time.
As time went by and the second round of chemo was started I mentoined all of this to the Oncologyst. We left there with the next round of chemo and a bunch of painkillers.
As the month went on I made an executive decision to stop the meds because that did not seem to co-ordinate with me. The pain got worse as time ticked by. Desparate for help I knocked on the door of the GP. She said she thinks I may have pnemonia, if it gets worse, get the anti biotic and use it. The cough stayed the same so I left it, thinking it is not that bad.
Eventually we asked for a referral to be admitted to hospital on the 30th under a neuro surgeon, because in our mind it was something pinching somewhere.
After the MRI we learnt that the cancer waa back and had spread to my lower back and hips and hence the pain.
We were shocked. I burst out in tears saying how can this be???? I did everything right? Why was this missed again like the first time? Was I not supposed to go for a routine CT scan somewhere? I don't know how this is supposed to work, in which order what takes place?
Being hospitalised for 11 days since 30 August, I was checked in to Hospice on Friday 20 September. They are now trying to get my pain recipe right before I can be discharged again.
We are facing reality while we are waiting on a Miracle. We are praying for God's will to be done, which ever way it goes.
Thanks for everyone's messages, love, care and support.