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Wife Just Diagnosed w/ ES SCLC - What Can We Expect?

Lung Cancer | Last Active: Aug 20, 2022 | Replies (222)

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Liz is vomiting from her chemo and still refuses to eat. She has anti-nausea pills, but they do not seem to be working for her. Both myself and our daughter have been on her to eat and I made it plain that if she does not start eating, she will be in the hospital soon. It seems that everything she eats comes back up in a short time.

She will be going for a hip exam next week as it is really paining her now. While she can still get around with a walker or cane, she is very slow and complains about the pain it is causing to be up and around.

I am still up most nights. Lately it is the worry about getting wheelchair access to our home. We are approximately 62" off the ground and it looks like it will take an extreme ramp to get her up here. I have started checking on selling the house and moving into a ground floor apartment, but there is very little available in our area.

Sounds like a bad soap opera, but this is our state of affairs...... Thanks for checking up on us!!!

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I'm so sorry to hear that Liz is having difficulty with her chemo. I was afraid of this and with no food to help absorb acids she must feel extremely ill. Do you know how much weight she has lost? What do her doctors say?

May I make a suggestion that you back off pressuring her to eat? This really doesn't work, as you are seeing, and may make matters worse. I think perhaps that the stress she is feeling increases with the pressure to eat? I'm not sure that she will eat no matter what you do.

I wish that I could talk to her. Do you think that she would be willing, in a private message maybe?