So, I have decided to answer for others that would like to know. I know she would want me to in case it may help someone else to go get checked.
My mother died of pancreatic cancer. She was diagnosed with Diabetes at first. However, she was still having problems even on medication. She kept telling her doctor that she was losing weight and she was just laying in bed all day. She had no energy to do anything else. Her blood sugar was going crazy no mater what was done. That all stater in 2002.
In 2009, something happened that was just strange. My mother woke up one day and was throwing up blood, she was white as a sheet. My brother called 9-1-1 and they took her to the hospital. Her pancreas was so swollen it puncher her stomach. I was there in the waiting room when I saw the emergency room doctor run through and left the ER to drag one of the cancer Doctors to see what was happening. The specialist was spitting fire. He wanted to go over to the other hospital where my mother's doctor was and string him up.
Due to this incident, my mother started getting the treatment she should have had in the first place.
I knew there was something wrong long before this, even tried to get my father to get her to get a second opinion. But he did not want to spend extra money he didn't have. He said I should quit school and go to get a factory job if I was so worried.My mother said if I did that she would never go to any doctor again! Me going to school was a huge thing to her. She got married at 19 and didn't get a chance. She was not going to do anything to stop me from living her dream. She was there to watch me walk in Dec. 2007. We all where joking that it was hard to tell who was graduating that day, me or her.
My brother is Autistic and did not know what he could do to help. He is bad enough to need SSI. My little sister is epileptic to the point that the Doctors say that she can be a danger for herself and others in a work environment. Her seizures are very odd. She does not fall down, she suddenly takes off. There were many times I had to run after her down the street to keep her from getting hit by a car. It was me that should have done more. Every day I blame myself for not taking care of her. I should have done something to help her.
So please, if you see a love one that is told they have Diabetes, yet they are not getting it under control no mater what they are doing. If they are losing weight and are not doing anything that could account for it. Please get them to go get a blood test to see id it is cancer. Caught early, there is things that can be done to help fight it.
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