Granny has cancer and water between lungs?

Question

My granny is 88 and has breast cancer, one breast was removed when she was 65. She still takes a lot of cancer and other medications. She has one kidney, heart and breathing problems. She needs a wheel chair and oxygen and is in a nursing home. Two times water between her lungs were removed. Now she has water between her lungs again. She told me that she cannot do a surgery again because that would damage her lungs. She takes medication to remove the water, but it does not help 100%.

She does not have any pain, why? She is a lucky cancer victim. I heard that some cancer patients suffer bad pain and some need Morphine everyday. My granny seems to be fresh and healthy when I see her. It seems that she lives forever and never dies. But sometimes she suddenly has breathing and speaking problems. She is a hospice patient but does not look like a person who is going to die. Could she suddenly die because of her lug problems, although she looks good? I want to look online about this lung illness. Does anybody know the name of this illness? Does anybody have friends or family members with this illness?

Answer 1

Hi
The pain depends upon the type of cancer your granny has. There are several symptoms for breast cancer and it has treatments also. I found a good treatments regarding breast cancer in the link just visit the link so that you could know more informations about breast cancer and also about its treatment.

http://www.canceronline.biz/
http://www.canceronline.biz/breastcancer%20treatment.htm

Answer 2

Sometimes the brain is affected by the lack of oxygen because with the fluid the lungs aren't working as good as they can. It sounds like the fluids might be coming from her heart problems and possibly lymph fluid, lymph does back up to lungs sometimes after breast cancer when they take the nodes out too. She could suddenly die with the plural effusion because her lungs could collapse or fill rapidly too fast for the diuretics to take out fluid, plus diuretics take out the water part of the fluid but there are other components that don't come out that are left to build up in the lungs. I've known alot of people with the illness and sometimes some go on respirators trying to live longers, some get trach's, but in the end there's not much you can do.

Answer 3

Hi, I'm very sorry about your grandmother. It sounds like she has a strong spirit and a loving granddaughter.

Having water in the spaces outside the lungs is called pleural effusion. It can be related to her kidney or heart problems, or related to cancer. I'm not sure what it is in your grandmother's case.