Attitudes Towards Cancer

[Rainbow Moonlight]

Scary stuff hebe. Good luck to both of you.

[Jovial Monk]

Good luck from me too.

[Hebe]

Thanks. I hadn't realised till I typed that how afraid I am. And that underneath the apparent calm I am trying to think how we'll cope if it's true.

[AiA in Atlanta]

Thanks. I hadn't realised till I typed that how afraid I am. And that underneath the apparent calm I am trying to think how we'll cope if it's true.

Our prayers are with you. And Aussie, who I never doubted had a good heart.

[Jubial Priest]

who I never doubted had a good heart.

Pity about the brain

[AiA in Atlanta]

There is a bit of a stir in the States about a Supreme Court Justice who is being treated with chemo for cancer. Critics say the mental state of professionals whose decisions affect others should be free from chemical impairment. If the drugs she is using were illegal it would be clear cut. Any thoughts?

[Jovial Monk]

Chemo does knock you about (going by my experience with Elizabeth) but don't impair thinking.

[Ravi]

My aunty has just been diagnosed with cancer, initially it was breast cancer but now is in her bones and her brain. She went from being sore and out of breath to being unable to walk tolying in a hospital bed in Brisbane not knowing what is going to happen, within days. She was only diagnosed about a month ago and was told in the last week or so that she will spend the rest of her life in a wheelchair ... not that the rest of her life will take all that long going by the general feeling .... her son was in a motorbike accident a year or so ago and is also spending the rest of his life in a wheelchair ... must be time for the families luck to change surely.

[Hebe]

Oh God, I'm so sorry Ravi. Life can be so shitful.

Perhaps this is where religion comes in - though in my experience Christians are just as terrified of dying as anyone else. So I wonder if it's the terror that makes them religious in the first place.

That's one thought.

The next one is when are we going to get voluntary euthanasia? (I suppose I should start a thread on this, but I suspect we all think roughly the same).

The third one re AiA's question is that if medical opinion says he's not mentally impaired, he should be allowed to sit. Presumably he's allowed to drink.

[JW Frogen]

Reading this thread I realise I am the luckest fucking man on Earth.

And deserve has got nothing to do with it.