my mother was diagnosed with throat/tonsil cancer approx a year ago, she had radical surgery 18 hrs. since then she was told the cancer had reoccured and she had probably three weeks to live because of a lump below her shoulder that had formed, after this devastating news that same weekend we noticed puss coming from the lump we took her to an infectious specialist (we knew she was battling an infection from her trac that she was sent home from the hospital with) he did extensive testing etc. he couldnt get a positive result we took her back to ucd hosp. they did more testing that friday she was told they were in error she was CANCER FREE! low and behold her health went downhill from there we were told that cancer was back and eroding away her jaw, we never have told her i think she knew before we did. since then my precious mom has been on morphene patch now even more than that, her right side of her face swells horribly she has bleeding intervalls now that are horrible, she still has a trac has not had anything decent to eat since her surgery, i know that she is scared to die so she fights it. my mom never smoked,drank alcohol etc.
she dosent want to see any more doctors because of the experience she had with the infection and after care she received, i feel like she so dosent deserve all this torture, she stayed in bed all day today this is the first time she has done this, does any one know of any one with oral cancer that has had these bleeding occurances? is this caused from the jaw eroding from the cancer, please can some one help me to understand or deal with all this?