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re: Terminal Disease and Fighting Hard question
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:02 pm to epbart
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:02 pm to epbart
My wife is going thru this as we speak. The Non Small Cell Lung Cancer has reared its ugly head for the third time. She starts radiation this week for a spot on the lining of the skull and a spot on her spine. A PET scan this Tuesday will tell us if it’s elsewhere.
We have been clean for two years due to the medication called Tagrisso. Unfortunately it doesn’t last forever snd this particular brand of cancer is very aggressive.
We are extremely lucky that both our children are in their thirties and successful. We’ve had friends pass from cancer that left behind very young children.
My wife is a fighter. She keeps in great physical condition walking and working out almost every day. We will follow whatever treatments the doctors recommend. I’m trying my best to be there and support this wonderful person that I’ve been blessed to share my life with for forty four years.
I hope you never find yourselves in this position. Be strong snd supportive. I’m a survivor of renal cancer snd until the disease is cured as mine was you live a hellish nightmare 24/7.
God bless if you’re going thru this
We have been clean for two years due to the medication called Tagrisso. Unfortunately it doesn’t last forever snd this particular brand of cancer is very aggressive.
We are extremely lucky that both our children are in their thirties and successful. We’ve had friends pass from cancer that left behind very young children.
My wife is a fighter. She keeps in great physical condition walking and working out almost every day. We will follow whatever treatments the doctors recommend. I’m trying my best to be there and support this wonderful person that I’ve been blessed to share my life with for forty four years.
I hope you never find yourselves in this position. Be strong snd supportive. I’m a survivor of renal cancer snd until the disease is cured as mine was you live a hellish nightmare 24/7.
God bless if you’re going thru this
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Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:04 pm to mallardhank
prayers are with yall.. thats tough
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:11 pm to Geekboy
I have had family do everything possible to stay alive for their children. I have witnessed 4 people, one family member will to die. All had the same reason. They did not want to be a burden to others and did not want to spend what small amount of money they had on prolonging a brief life. I find honor in both decisions
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:12 pm to OWLFAN86
Where are you located?
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:34 pm to jimmy the leg
at home
Houston
Houston
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:35 pm to OWLFAN86
quote:
OWLFAN86
Get well soon, I have $50 on you kicking Chris' arse
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:38 pm to OWLFAN86
Do what you can in the short term amigo. Keep working at it.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:45 pm to jimmy the leg
quote:yeah that's what I'm doing I get really mad at myself the days when I don't feel like doing my stretches or exercises but my body can only take how much it takes. I need to do the work, but my brain and body need rest as well
Do what you can in the short term amigo. Keep working at it.
I've started this new acupuncture therapy to help jumpstart those muscles and it's helping but my God it fricking hurts
Posted on 8/15/21 at 3:47 pm to OWLFAN86
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I've never understood what in means to 'fight hard' to survive an illness.
It's just a noble way of saying there was much suffering.
This post was edited on 8/15/21 at 10:36 pm
Posted on 8/15/21 at 5:26 pm to Geekboy
To me, it would mean trying things that would make you sicker and more miserable than you already are, in an effort to try to beat it. There are some who just say “no more” at some point and I can’t fault that either. God bless those who have to deal with the disease and the decisions and their loved ones.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 5:28 pm to Nawlens Gator
I am currently in my 5th year fighting stage iv rectal cancer. I was told in no uncertain terms that I had only about two years when I was first diagnosed. I don't know if it was anything I did to live longer than they told me, but I wouldn't take no for an answer about a liver resection. I found a surgeon at MD Anderson willing to operate on my liver and it gave me more time.
I am now almost out of options and I will know in october if this last line of chemo is effective at all. If not I will most probably just try to live out the best days I can with what time I have left. Won't be long now though, maybe 6 months to a year.
I am now almost out of options and I will know in october if this last line of chemo is effective at all. If not I will most probably just try to live out the best days I can with what time I have left. Won't be long now though, maybe 6 months to a year.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 5:33 pm to Geekboy
Norm Macdonald once joked about a guy “battling cancer.” Did he have a sword and a shield, and stuff?
Posted on 8/15/21 at 5:38 pm to Geekboy
A desire to live, not get angry and give up, mentally. If you were drowning and completely worn out, but continued to fight for air, rather than being sucked under, is the best analogy I can think of.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 6:52 pm to Geekboy
I mean what else can you say? “The disease kicked his helpless arse”?
Plus Suicide was an option.
Plus Suicide was an option.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 7:25 pm to Geekboy
quote:
Is it prayer?
Pray in one hand, shite in the other. You can guess which one fills first.
I'm guessing they mean that somebody faced death bravely.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 8:12 pm to Dixie Normus
quote:Similar to coming back from being paralyzed on YouTube
there are others that push themselves and make it a year with those same treatments.
"It's either me, or that toe!"
The whiskey, and Maureen O'Hara probably helped too.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 8:15 pm to Geekboy
Refusing to die and doing what it takes to stay alive.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 8:16 pm to BluegrassBelle
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When my Mom received her terminal cancer diagnosis she went ahead and with treatment (chemo and later radiation for METs on her brain) in order to try to squeeze as much as she could out of the time she had left.
It was literally a fight for her to live every day that she did when she was in the throws of her disease. She could have very easily given up.
Thanks for posting this. I appreciate the choice your mother made to fight the disease.
Having said that, I often wonder about the totality of this decision. I’ve seen some people make the choice to “fight” cancer, which means transforming their life into a full time job of taking poison (chemo), making special foods and supplements, going to treatments, spending huge sums, seeking 2nd and 3rd opinions, and often suffering severe effects from the treatment, only to eventually die with not much extra time to show for the effort.
If a person with terminal cancer decided to make the choice to not undergo these expensive and difficult treatments, and instead focused their remaining time with other life experiences, such as visiting family, enjoying some bucket list items, going on spiritual retreats, doing some selfless giving to help others, etc. while they still have the capability, even though it would mean a shorter life, would that be less noble than “fighting” the disease, or as the Jim Valvano quote goes, “Never give up”?
Posted on 8/15/21 at 9:31 pm to Geekboy
My mechanic was like a brother to me. He was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer in the summer of 2016. He was given 2-4 months to live. He drove from Tennessee to Atlanta for treatments that made him vomit and caused pain. He kept working. His wife told him to go ahead and die. He prayed with other sick patients at the hospital and encouraged them. He lived until November of 2017. He truly fought hard.
Posted on 8/15/21 at 9:35 pm to Geekboy
My dad has been going through one for years and goes to every doctor’s appointment, etc. I’d have given up a long time ago. Hell I’m physically healthy and feel suicidal a lot.
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