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Maggie,

I know exactly how you feel because it mirrors my experience with my mother who also had Cholangiocarcinoma. She passed away on May 3rd 2015, after only being diagnosed in mid April. She had some pains since February and she was in and out of the hospital for most of April. I just wanted my Mom back and the doctors just didn’t seem to be “really” helping. They kept going back and forth with putting stints in or attaching a drainage bag, nothing really seemed like a good plan. Communication was another area where they failed I went all that time of course knowing it was cancer but thought she could be helped. All she wanted was to come home, she was my best friend and the way she was treated was inexcusable in my mind. I kept advocating and pleading with the doctors do do something tangieble and spent days and nights researching possible studies and treatments.
Then on April 30th I was with my mother in the hospital preparing her to come home, that’s when the doctors came in a blurted out “a few months”, “nothing we can do” and “hospice”. My mind was swirling, how could she go from getting help to get better to a blunt death sentence. She came home on May 1st and passed on the 3rd. So not only did we not get the help to cure her we didn’t even get those “final months”. My heart broke I went from my dear mother who I laughed with weeks before to nothing. It just seemed to fast, how could something ravage someone so fast! I can relate to you perfectly.
~ Katie Keener
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My Mother
~ Ida Keener August 6th 1960 – May 3rd 2015