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Originally Posted by Little Cat
So glad to hear you're feeling better, Rose. We saw the consultant today and decided against radiotherapy as it would interfere with her quality of life too much. She would only just be on the threshold of treatment anyway. Sometimes medicine is just a guessing game at the edges. I used to be a doctor. She's been referred to the palliative care team. We're also living one day at a time. I hope your summer is warm and sunny, and that there are beautiful flowers in your garden. Blessings to you.
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Yes . . . sometime the treatment is worse than the malady. My guy also is not getting any cancer treatment currently. The side effects of immunotherapy got too bad.
Medicine does involve a lot of guessing. Reading imaging (Xrays, CT scans, etc) is way more guesswork than I used to think. Radiologists make the big bucks. They guess a lot. Chest xrays are hard to read. I've been told an xray said one think, then told something different. Also, sometimes they say they definitely did or didn't see something on an xray . . . . and you find out later that they were wrong.
I hope your mom has some quality time left. My guy's quality of life has gone down a lot recently. I hate to lose him, but I hate to see him struggling. Everything is getting so hard for him. And for me helping him. I can barely keep up. Really I wasn't keeping up. That's why he is there in the facility.
I'm sleepy now, but I have things to do.