Re: Low plattet questions


"alex" <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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"



Alex, you are showing your ignorance again.
Bronchodilators or insulin do not have cumulative toxicity. They are
necessary. Chemotherapy does have cumulative toxicity, and its effectiveness
eventually becomes less. Eventually the marrow can't take it any more.
Nobody is "shaming" people, but once treatment starts to cause more harm
than good, it's time to reassess the situation.


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