Posted by:
Tyson Dunn
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Date: July 21, 2021 02:57PM
My mother has been in treatment for an extremely rare cancer for the last four years. She suffered a stroke at the onset, and her quality of life has yoyoed from so-so to awful. But for now, she's still alive in spite of everything.
Now, just last week, my husband's mother went into the hospital with some vague complaints. Now we know that she has the exact same rare cancer as my mother. WTF?!?!
They caught hers later so it's inoperable and can't be treated with radiation. They may be able to do chemotherapy, but she's still in bad shape from the surgery they performed to place a stent.
At the beginning of the month, she seemed a bit worn out and was having breathing issues, but nothing that suggested that she was this far along. And just two months earlier, she drove three hours on her own to come visit us. She appeared fully healthy, and there was nothing unusual in her medical tests.
I'm just incapable of processing this.
Tyson