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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 514877" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I know how hard all this is because we went through the same thing years ago when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. By the time we found out she had it, it had spread through her body and there was really nothing that could be done. Since she really wasn't competent, the doctors spoke mainly to my brother and me. There was no hope for a cure but they told us that with a lot of chemotherapy she could possibly have maybe two more months, and everything in me wanted to say, "Yes! Do anything you can to give her more time!" But then we stopped to think ... two more months of WHAT? Two more months of staring at the ceiling in a hospital room, sick and in pain, struggling to breathe and just waiting to die? No way was that in her best interests. The decision to let her go was the hardest thing we ever had to do, but I still think we did the right thing and I don't regret it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 514877, member: 1883"] I know how hard all this is because we went through the same thing years ago when my mother was diagnosed with cancer. By the time we found out she had it, it had spread through her body and there was really nothing that could be done. Since she really wasn't competent, the doctors spoke mainly to my brother and me. There was no hope for a cure but they told us that with a lot of chemotherapy she could possibly have maybe two more months, and everything in me wanted to say, "Yes! Do anything you can to give her more time!" But then we stopped to think ... two more months of WHAT? Two more months of staring at the ceiling in a hospital room, sick and in pain, struggling to breathe and just waiting to die? No way was that in her best interests. The decision to let her go was the hardest thing we ever had to do, but I still think we did the right thing and I don't regret it. [/QUOTE]
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