Breast Cancer
This is just my advice, the widower. Just my opinion, I could be wrong, but I went through it all, heard all the doctors, listened to all their opinions, watched my wife die in my arms.
When the end comes, it was just me and my wife in the room, with church members, singing hymns and praying, and a wonderful charge nurse with a hypo of morphine. She kept it coming, until my darling passed on to the next and last stop.
And I spent three years in therapy trying to pull myself together.
Anyway, my opinion is this: should anyone suggest to you that you and your loved on participate in a "CLINICAL TRIAL" of a drug treatment plan - don't do it. Don't ever let anyone in a white jacket talk you into it. Somewhere in that clinical trial, a portion of the participants are getting a dose that's not effective, what do they call it? A placebo, I think.
Forget it. The cancer treatment organizations may be filled with people with good intentions, but as they said during the 70's - " follow the money." Look out for yourselves.
As for the doctors, they know averages, "generally," they will say, the "outcomes" tend to be. Notice the language.
When it comes TO YOUR SPECIFIC CASE - they cannot generally call the shots, and if they do know, usually they won't tell you outright.
You are on your own. Trust me on that. I've been there.
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When the end comes, it was just me and my wife in the room, with church members, singing hymns and praying, and a wonderful charge nurse with a hypo of morphine. She kept it coming, until my darling passed on to the next and last stop.
And I spent three years in therapy trying to pull myself together.
Anyway, my opinion is this: should anyone suggest to you that you and your loved on participate in a "CLINICAL TRIAL" of a drug treatment plan - don't do it. Don't ever let anyone in a white jacket talk you into it. Somewhere in that clinical trial, a portion of the participants are getting a dose that's not effective, what do they call it? A placebo, I think.
Forget it. The cancer treatment organizations may be filled with people with good intentions, but as they said during the 70's - " follow the money." Look out for yourselves.
As for the doctors, they know averages, "generally," they will say, the "outcomes" tend to be. Notice the language.
When it comes TO YOUR SPECIFIC CASE - they cannot generally call the shots, and if they do know, usually they won't tell you outright.
You are on your own. Trust me on that. I've been there.
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