Mageling
Bronze Knight of the Realm
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How about a big fuck you? Considering how long it took me to come to terms with my illness, getting to a place where I could openly talk about my goals in my treatment is a pretty goddamn big deal. Belittling someone for that is pretty sad. Why don't you tell me how easy it is to go through PC that's metastasized to stage 2b non-small cell lung cancer? Tell me how it's really not a big deal to have gone through a round of LDR brachytherapy, 3 rounds of directed beam radiotherapy, 2 rounds of chemo, going through CT/ultrasound/X-rays every week, platelet infusions at least once a month, and then finding out that your lung cancer is treatment resistant. Then you can tell me how easy it is to make a decision on if you have the strength to go through either high-dose chemo or chest radiation.
It's taken 9 months of treatment to finally say I'm in remission from my prostate cancer, and it takes every fucking ounce of strength to go through Navelbine and Cisplatin treatments twice a week and still maintain a full time job, and hold up a facade that I'm just fine with this treatment. Every day I have to decide if I can actually keep up with the current treatment, let alone adding two other treatments to this.
So tell me how I shouldn't be setting goals when in November I was given 9-12 months if my lung cancer was treatment resistant. My odds aren't super great, but I'm still setting goals for October of next year because Iwantto be there.
