My mum

I need to step away from the blog for a while. As regular readers may be aware, my mum is battling stage four cancer – ocular melanoma. My mum told me many months ago that she was happy for me to discuss her health on the blog.

The latest news is not good. Despite having to have her left eye removed and undergoing a course of radiotherapy, the cancer continued to spread. This type of cancer is notoriously aggressive and does not respond to chemotherapy. We thought we were about to lose her just before Christmas 2023 when she suffered a bad reaction to her immunotherapy treatment which almost killed her. But thankfully she pulled through. Even though she nearly died due to the treatment, it was successful in holding the cancer at bay for a while.

The cancer has been spreading again and early this year we learned that it had spread to her brain. She had a short course of radiotherapy a couple of weeks ago in an effort to slow down the spread of the lesions. Unfortunately on Monday she was admitted to hospital after falling. It transpired that she had suffered a significant haemorrhage on her brain.

I saw her doctor yesterday, but she is continuing to deteriorate and there is nothing more that they can do.They are giving her painkillers and sedatives to keep her comfortable but we’ve been told this is not survivable.

They can’t tell us how much longer she’s got, but it’s not likely to be too much longer. She is no longer responsive or conscious.

She may stabilise, or she may just slip away, there’s no way of telling, but until we know one way or the other, my head is not really in the politics game. I will keep you posted.

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