I'm going to tell you a little about my Mom.
Just a week before my son was born, she was diagnosed with breast cancer - Triple Negative. I didn't actually find out about this until a week after having him. I think she told me 2 days before she had her op to have the lump removed.
It had turned out that she actually had the pre op the day I had Bubs.
How on earth she held it together I'll never know, because the day I had Bubs, that was a complete nightmare - I'll tell you about his birth another day.
So anyway, my mom had her operation, to remove the lump, and the lump had actually grown bigger in the two weeks from when she was diagnosed. Scary! But the operation went well from what I was told.
She then started her chemo treatment, she had a few weeks of that, then radiotherapy, then more chemo.
The only thing she really feared was loosing her hair. Her hair thinned, and eventually fell out, but surprisingly enough, it wasn't the chemo or radio that had made her loose her hair. No, it was her back.
See halfway into her treatment, she had a problem with her back, which caused a lot of pain in her legs, she spent a few days in hospital for scans and expats and the des were worried us was due to the cancer. It wasn't, it turned out the had a slipped disc and a pretruding disk.
My mom couldn't walk, she was on a cocktail of meds, and eventually the hospital agreed to perform an operation. Once all her chemo had finished.
She had the operation a week ago, they removed the one disc and I imagine that it was replaces with a plastic disk or something, and shaved? The other disc.
My mom came out of hospital the next day and I stayed over night with her, she lives alone as she split from her partner a few yrs ago.
Bringing us to the present date. She has lost all of her hair, due to the meds she was on for her back, she's still struggling to walk, and she's in a lot of pain.
I'm constantly worrying about her as she now tells me she's not eating,she's in constant pain, her back is all bruised which I believe is from the op, and causing her the pain. She's not sleeping but spends most of her day in bed as it's less painful for her to lie down then stay sitting around the living room.
I'm going up tomorrow to see how she's doing and to do some odd jobs for her.
I'll keep you all updated on her progress.
Thanks for reading.
ABM xxx
