Ok here goes, this is the first time I've felt the need to do anything like this, I've been through more than my fair share of medical issues myself but it's totally different when it's your father, even I'd he does do your head in most of the time lol.
I'm female and nearly 50, he's a very paranoid 88 year old who trusts no one, he's been fobbed off with his weight loss by a doctor at our surgery for months now, but I didn't realise how bad things were until I stepped in and insisted he see my lovely GP. As his daughter he gave me written permission to have access to his medical records at our doctors a few years ago which had proved really helpful. After doing his bloods (incl his PSA at my request) the surgery called him in 14 hours later to talk about his results cos something had been flagged up. I sat in with him while he had the consultation with Ruth (my GP) to hear that him tell her that he's lost a good 3 stone since Christmas, he's having water works trouble, needing to go a lot, especially first thing in the morning, trouble starting, not flowing very well, trouble stopping and a very painful right kidney area but only when he sits down and leans on it, Ruth examined him to find that he's also lost muscle mass too. His PSA is 27. She put him on the cancer pathway and put me as their contact as he's very hit and miss with answering his phone. That was at 4pm last Wednesday, at 10am Thursday I was being called by Stoke hozzy and dad was having his first telephone nurse's consultation at 3pm the same day. He rang me back at 4pm to say she said that they would be contacting me within the next 7 days to haul him in for tests incl a bone density test. And so our journey begins.
I do have one question though, can anyone tell me if a bone density scan is normal procedure before he's even had a cancer diagnosis?
Best wishes to all x