Faced with this blank page cant think what to write. Bad things happening, friends husband has a melanoma, bad skin cancer being removed and my golf partners grandchild very ill. Does there seem more bad things now or just it affects me more. I worked in a children's intensive care unit once, actually the one the grandchild is in and a ward which looked after melanomas so I am imagining the worst about these two. I hope the cancer is early and the child recovers, it was a long time since I worked in those wards and I know treatment has improved.
The medical battle with illness has become very prolonged, one father called it torture of the dying, we hope for longer and we grieve longer and there are the consequences of life saving treatment that is very hard on the body. At work we are seeing survivors of childhood cancers having children and health issues they have, but then would anyone choose death instead, I've known a few mainly older people end treatment when the treatment was getting worse than the disease and it obviously wasn't helping. It's a rare doctor that advises stopping treatment even in very old age and particularly in crisis medical events. A lot of my generation having seentheir parents suffering and poor quality of life
Perhaps will make different choices through I doubt it.
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