Mom found out she has pancreatic cancer a month ago and now she’s taken a turn and I feel clueless.
Hello and thank you for reading. My mom has stage IV pancreatic cancer and has created a huge amount of fluids on her. She has been walking to the living room and bathroom since she started chemo (2 weeks ago) and now she is so weak from not eating barely anything (fruit here and there) and now she needs help walking and sitting up. I’ve been giving her the meds the doctor said and she isn’t in pain from what she says.
I understand that each person is different with this disease but I’m scared to death because I know nothing of medicine and how to mentally deal with seeing her weak and tired for the past couple days. Yesterday was her first day of not leaving the bed except to use bathroom and today is number 2. The feeling of scariness worse at night and now I’m sitting in her room waiting to help her if she needs. I go to her appointments but now I’m controlling her meds and now trying to make sense of the doctor info on her chart. I’m reading what she said to nurse and I am writing things to say to the nurse too. It seems like she is going down quick and maybe that’s true but I want her to get strength to at least walk by herself. Might not happen but any voices to say anything would help me right now. Thank you.
Posted Mar 14, 2026, 12:29 AM UTC