Nursing Case Study Kathleen Evans

Kathleen Evans is a mother of five she is married to Barry and they are a grandmother and grandfather of twenty including two great grandchildren. Kathleen comes from a small town Windale in Lake Macquarie. In the 1990’s she was diagnosed with a carcinoma in her right lung.
When her x-rays and scans had been taken her GP sent her to a heart, lung surgeon. He put Kathleen in a hospital for a biopsy. The surgeon had explained that he was hoping to remove her right lung and as her youngest child is only 13 years old, getting that lung removed was bad she wanted to see her kids grow up. Her cancer was starting to spread into her glands. The doctors were concerned that one of Kathleen’s glads was really close to the aorta. The doctors had taken another x-ray and had found that at the bottom of my brain another one started to grow. Kathleen was sent to a chemotherapist but they gave her no chance that the chemo would work. …show more content…
Kathleen decided that her odds are just not worth it. She was only given a couple mounts at the most to live. Kathleen decided to reject any treatment.
Kathleen was only left on prayer she was a great believer in prayer. The next few weeks of Kathleen’s life were hard times she was unable to stay out of been for a long period of time, she would get the shakes really bad that her husband had to help her calm down and she couldn’t even bath or shower herself. She really suffered those weeks she found it hard to breath in the night she was in a really bad