Dear Friend John,
Miss Lillian has given you some wonderful advice and a good site to
check out. I recently viewed the Staten Island video they sent me (as an
option for the cancer that I have) and was really impressed with what
they can do. I certainly don't want to give you any false hope, but I
would definitely check out this clinic. When I called them, they offered
to let me talk with a doctor if I had wanted to. Very friendly and
informative. They require your pathology, x-rays, c-scans, etc. and you
send it to them and they evaluate whether or not they can help you.
(Please send COPIES as they are notorious for misplacing things or not
returning them.) As I've been told by a past user, they won't say they
can help you if they can't.
As for your actual question, have you ever been around someone on chemo?
I have. I was a care giver. It really leaves an impression on you. On
a more personal note, I was told that chemo (and anything else),
statistically, was ineffective on my type of cancer. But they
recommended I take it. I refused. To me, quality of life is much better
than quantity. But that's a personal decision, one that each individual
must make for themselves. Only you can decide.
Don't give up just yet. I know that on the video they sent me they had
someone with lung cancer that was given less time to live than you. They
are now whole and living. But as I said, I don't want to give false hope
to you, but I'd definitely check out Staten Island. Have you checked out
the "trials" going on for your type of cancer? Get on the Internet and
see what's out there. Exhaust every resource before you decide to just
sit back and die. Get my drift? Fight to the end. Doctors are not
Gods, only wonderful people who are limited by what knowledge they have.
Each doctor has a limit to their knowledge because they can't be "up" on
everything. Check it out yourself. Fight for it buddy, you never know
what may happen.
God bless and keep us posted.
Carol in Memphis (CIM)
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000 00:57:36 -0700 "John James Petrale"
<jjp2@email.msn.com> writes:
> Had a pedonial window based on pain and discovered the mentioned
> cancer.
> went for ten radiation brain treatments since the cancer
> metastasized into
> the brain. Oncologist wants me to be in chemo treatment, 3 times a
> week for
> as long as I live. 24 to 51 percent I year survival.
> The question is, is the treatment worth or is it better to die with
> living a
> normal than die living with the side efforts of chemo. In either
> case,
> death is the outcome, its quality of life versus quantity of life?
>
>
>
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