My best friend my Mum is dying
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Last activity on 21/10/2020 at 00:44
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18 months ago my darling Mum went to the doctor with a bad cough that had gone on for 12 weeks. They diagnosed her with reflux after saying there was a coarse line on her lung and doing tests. My Mum has never smoked. 5 months ago she went to the doctor. She had lost 4 stone and had severe back ache. She was diagnosed with osteoporosis and arthritis in her spine. Again they misdiagnosed her and sent her to a physio. She went to a and e and was told her x-ray was fine so went on holiday for a week and came bk to phone calls saying she had a fracture in her spine. The physio sent my mum for a ct scan and when they got the results they told us it was cancer. She had a bronchostomy and it showed she has stage 4 lung cancer with metastasis to the lymph nodes the liver and the adrenal gland and told us we are looking at months rather than years. They did an Mri scan a week later and concluded the cancer has spread to her spine and colapsed her spine. 6 days later she was rushed to hospital with suspected sepsis after being told she had a pulled muscle. The doctor who had missdiagnosed reflux did another ct scan which he said showed a possible blood clot on the lung and said that my mum would need another ct scan the next day so put a cannula in her arm with an enhancer to show up the c.f. scan better. In doing this wrong he split her vein and caused internal bleeding. He was taken off our case. The consultant had a look at the ct scan and concluded it was cracked ribs not a blood clot on the lung and sent her home the next day.no ct scan was needed and my mum didn't need the cannula that was put in wrongly. Mum is hm now but there just seems to be mistake after mistake which is ultimately going to take my best friend away from me. I get married in less than 3 weeks and I am just devastated and we have 2 children under 4 just so lost