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Joined: May 2010 Posts: 135 | Hello Kris. I'm sorry to hear the news about your mom. My heart goes out to both of you. I, too, am an only child and lost my mother (age 49) to ovarian cancer when I was 19. Now her baby sister (67) just finished rads for tongue cancer.
It is outrageous that they would not inform your mother of her condition and that they would not make the hospice arrangements for you. Personally, I am a believer in knowing the truth, but this may not be the path you choose. Perhaps if she was aware of the graveness of her condition she would be more receptive to the pain meds. Are you going to contact Hospice on your own?
Dodie
Aunt diag. 2/4/10 with SCC Stage I/II on left side of tongue. Surgery 2/19/10 part. gloss./neck diss. on left side/free flap from chest muscle. TI/II,NO,MO. Clear margins with perineural invasion. Started rads 4/8/10 - 35 treatments, finished 5/26/10.
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