The Doctor tells you that you have 6 months left to live
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You feel shocked, numb, a little sickly but soon it sets in. I'll call you if i need you Doctor. You step outside the surgery and the cold air hits your cheeks, normally at this time you would treat yourself to a cold drink and a bar of chocolate from the local newsagents but today it's best just to get the bus home. You wait and you wait, watching the world go about it's business.
What do you do next? How do you spend your last days on Earth?
What do you do next? How do you spend your last days on Earth?
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But I guess you're asking the question as if this wasn't the case and enquiring what life changing choice you'd make. In which case I guess I'd go visit Canada and Switzerland.
If it was true, then maybe the person should try and think positively and if the person can be strong, they may possibly live their life differently and leave behind a legacy of positivity.
*Tongue-in-cheek, no anti-religion replies required.
So you're in your final days then lol. Let me guess, the flowers smell fresher, the kids smiles are more happier even the husbands farts don't smell that bad anymore.:p
I seem to watch very carefully when crossing the road and try my best not to complain about the weather
Seeing the look on their faces as I look on them from either from above or below would be priceless !
Yep. My cousin was given about that but lasted two years - nearly all of it in misery with treatment after treatment - she wouldn't give in.
Absolutely horrible.
Friend of mine was given 2 years over a year ago, and I think was recently given 2 years again, as a prognosis, so sometimes things don't develop as fast as expected. Sometimes faster though. My friend's sister in law, only in her 20s, had a really rare, virulent cancer in the 1980s and was given just weeks. (From the point she walked into the doctor's with a painless lump and no real obvious symptoms). She was dead in 3 weeks.
Especially if they get better. "Look at me now! The doctor said this was impossible".
from my own personal experience of losing two very close life long friends to cancer in the same year, most of the time they had left was taken up with treatment and visits to hospital,
One friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer of the pancreas (usually a disease caused by heavy drinking and yet he was 'T' total) and told to expect 18 months to 2 years,
4 months after his diagnosis he got a phone call from the hospital telling him that they had made a mistake, and that he hadn't got terminal cancer after all, I can't put into words the sheer joy felt by him his family and all of his friends, but it felt like all my birthdays and Christmases had come at once, I can;t begin to imagine how HE felt,
6 weeks later, and it was "sorry, we made a mistake you ARE dying from cancer after all, sorry about that"
it felt like a twisted nightmare for me, God only knows how he must have felt, he was still able to get around even drive his car until very close to the end, he final passed away on boxing day 2010 2 years and 5 months after he was diagnosed, I have never seen courage like the courage he showed,
another close friend was also diagnosed with terminal cancer he had it all over the place, liver, lungs, stomach, and many other places and was given a few months at the most, he was diagnosed about 6 months AFTER the other guy, they were also close friends of each other,
He also took it very bravely, But died only 3 months later,
I'd wake up because it's not cold outside and I haven't taken a bus in years. Happy times though, reminds me of my student days. I'd often get a cold drink, but I wouldn't eat on the bus as I didn't want to spoil my appetite.
You can wake up now.
Friend's brother is a dr. He once told us he was trained to judge it, so if they look you in the eye and ask you directly "How long have I got?" you have to be honest. If they are not so direct, or you pick up the feeling they might not be able to handle it/want to know - maybe not. I told my dad this when I first knew he had cancer, so he would feel he could ask outright. He did. He got the answer: 18 mths. (I have told my friend who has cancer this, as well).
I honestly don't think Doctors always get it right, my friend was told she had 6 months to live she was dead in 2 weeks ... I think she was heartbroken and just gave up.
Sadly that has been my account too. I had a friend who was given 12 months and only lasted 6. My boyfriend's sister in law was given 6 months and lasted a year and a half after undergoing chemotherapy. She could barely get out of bed most days.