On of my wife’s cousins has GBM IV... found out two days before his daughter was born. That was nearly two years ago... but what hell he as gone through in two years... and I think he is getting closer to the end now... constantly in the hospital with infections and a myriad of complication, he is on so many different medicines he doesn’t even recognize his own children... he is just 32.
So sad in so many ways. Lovely girl in that pic.
I would not let my husband go.
My father was diagnosed with a brain tumor and was given 6 weeks. We all knew he had been “off” for about 8 months prior to that but it was mainly his feeling like he had a flu and no energy. It wasn’t until after he had what appeared to be a stroke that it was finally diagnosed.
The first 4 weeks he was perfectly fine, except for the loss of facial muscles on his right side of his face. He was a retired Army officer (WWII, Korea, and Vietnam) and he had us all marching around preparing things for the inevitable. Week 5 he was down more than up but was still aware of his self and the needs of his family. Middle of the 6th week he went down real fast. I gave him his last bath and I recall putting him back in bed and him just feeling so comfortable and thankful for that. I kissed him and told him I loved him. that was the last time I saw him alive. He passed 2 days later.
He was the toughest man I knew and he would never allow anyone to know how much pain he was actually in.