Metastatic liver cancer

The snowman cancer story continues…

Yet "the snowman melted a lot" today
(see previous post : snowman cancer story)

Mom was better after a long good rest of sleep. Father was the same: no big change in his secondary liver cancer, yet more active than yesterday.

Fathers belly is getting as big as well: you know those pictures of kids in Africa that are skinny with a big belly… That’s what fathers’ cancer looks like these day.

And I need my sleep as well as palliative care is like a 1 week job that needs to be done in 1 day….

Sleep deprivation

Finally we convinced mom to take a sleeping pill. For those who raised kids: sleep deprivation when baby cries is manageable when:

• you are 20something or 30something
• sooner or later the baby will be a silent toddler

Yet moms sleep deprivation could only become worse as:

• she is 70 something
• the metastatic liver cancer will only get worse

So it’s me and bro looking after father this night, me first so when tomorrow no update, it’s because I am sleeping and mom has made finally good use from us

Father is asleep already and the saliva sounds are not really saliva, but deeper in the lungs (we wouldn’t be surprised that the primary cancer is a lung cancer), so nothing can be done about that. Yet the sound is so alarming you wake up from it: and that must have been every second for mom. I will find out soonest enough.