I apologize if I do not have this post in the right forum. I just lost my husband on 1/7 to Metastatic Melanoma. He had been on Yervoy previous years and it worked very well. Earlier last year he had to go on a chemo pill that stopped working and then was started on PD-1. With the PD-1, he began to develop tumors all over his chest and back. They started him back on the Yervoy again, and then prior to him beginning radiation he had surgery to remove a couple of the tumors. About three weeks later we had to call 911 and he was taken to the hospital in Septic Shock. Through his 2 1/2 week hospital stay we thought he was getting better but he wasn't and then the doctor's told us that his cancer had spread throughout his belly. I am trying to come to terms with how this could have happened so quickly and even how it happened at all.
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Reply # - January 22, 2015, 12:58 PM
I am so very sorry for your
I am so very sorry for your loss. Please accept my condolences.
Septic shock happens when infection enters the blood allowing the infection to reach all over the body. It can move very quickly and the worst of possibilities. With a person as sick as your husband infection a constant threat. It sounds as though while the doctors were working to get a handle on the sepsis the cancer got worse. Unfortunately this still isn't as rare as is wished. I'm so sorry.
I think coping strategies is an excellent place for you to have placed your question. I may however move it to a new location to be useful to more people.
I think it might help to read this thread below. I hope you'll read it.
http://cancergrace.org/topic/husband-died-of-lung-cancer-or-septic-shock
May you find peace and hope,
Janine