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Originally Posted by AGDee
I am really struggling with this news and so is my daughter. She sent me a text from the next graduation party she attended asking "Did you get the whole story on G? Her family was acting like she was a walking corpse." Later, when we caught up after the fourth grad party of the day, we talked about it more. She said that G's grandma hugged her when she got there and said she was so happy that she got to see the girls graduate together and was glad that G had such supportive friends. Apparently G was only released from the hospital long enough to attend her party.. like a day pass. Their party ended early because G was in a lot of pain and had to get back to the hospital. G's sister told some of the other girls that they don't think that the cancer was ever completely gone, but that they weren't looking in the right place. It seems like if it was that widespread, they would have been doing MRIs and pet scans of her whole abdominal region. I mean, she'd had mets to the lungs originally.. wouldn't they have been looking just about everywhere to find all the tumors? To go from "She has no more visible cancer and we don't think she needs any follow up chemo because it is all gone" to her being this ill due to kidney interference in 6 weeks time just doesn't seem right at all 
This is weighing heavy on my mind and I have shed a lot of tears about it today. |
My sister is a pediatrician and she says that 100 years from now, people are going to look back and say that the way we treated cancer was barbaric. I think that there's so much that they don't know. I'd like to think that if you had cancer, at least they could find all of it, but that just doesn't seem to be the case. In my cousin's situation, when his tumors were first discovered, he was literally whisked out to the Mayo Clinic within 48 hours. At that point, they said he had 3 weeks to live. His local doctors had initially suspected something orthopedic (he was an avid athlete), then MS (the tumors were pressing on nerves in his brain that affected the left side of his body, so the symptoms fooled everyone for a while). They were able to operate and use radiation, and 3 years later, he had had several "cancer free" check ups at Mayo. He'd had one in June, and was in his college apartment the week before school started when he didn't feel well. He went in to get checked out, and the cancer was all over his body, in a different form. So, he went back to Mayo. I am sorry to share a sad story...I wish I had something uplifting to share. But I have learned that it's called the "practice" of medicine for a reason.
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