Re: Low plattet questions

kill yourself with chemo or aim for quality of life.
That's your choices.
J


Many medical treatments have side effects. You would never tell a patient
with Parkinson's Disease or ALS to stop the medication due to the side
effects yet when you hear cancer you say aim for quality of life. Through
my personal experience I see people kept alive with pace makers or dialysis
and no one throws the quality of life issue at them. You would never tell
an end stage COPD patient who is struggling to walk through the grocery
store, "Have you thought you have a crappy quality of life, I see you
struggle buying your groceries why don't you do us all a favor and shut off
your oxygen." Yet you try to shame people with cancer for electing
treatment. I say walk a mile in their shoes before making heartless
statements.

Next time you see a person with diabetes in a wheelchair, who has lost their
legs, are in pain, and lost their eyesight, "Don't bother with the insulin
think of quality of life, that is your choices"


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