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Originally Posted by julieisafemme
My Mom is on hospice now. The cancer is in her lungs, spine, brain and liver. She just finished a 10 day course of palliative radiation. It did help. She is on all kinds of medication now. She also forgets words and has neuropathy from the chemo. She is 74! The doctor did not attribute it to old age! The lesion in her brain was causing headaches and slurred speech and that has improved with the radiation and steroids. Sorry to be a downer here! We have to be with her 24/7 now and sometimes she gets annoyed at allllll these people up in her business! She really enjoyed Christmas though.
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Some good news on the neuropathy. The hospice nurses prescribed a drug called neurontin? or something like that and it has helped tremendously with the mobility in her hands. I came in tonight to say goodnight and she was typing away at the computer on an email to her friends list. She has not been able to do this for a long time. She was really happy!
Also the hiccups and burping from the radiation (she had shots through esophagus to the spine) has improved tremendously! That makes her super happy!