Ouch, as ouch goes....
May. 24th, 2011 11:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersIn the midst of life...
My mother's neighbour, whom I had driven to the Royal Marsden every day for more than a month last year
http://johnny9fingers.livejournal.com/205013.html
had her six month check-up last week. Last Saturday my mother 'phoned and told me the cancer has returned. Steph is being given the option of the complete removal of her tongue and upper oesophagus, or her allotted six feet. Steph is a few months younger than me. She has been a stalwart friend to my mum since dad died, and prior to that was a good friend to the old man. She and her partner Ericka have been family friends for more than twenty years.
My guess is she'll opt for a managed end to it all. Being fed through a tube, unable to speak, and in constant pain may be unbearable.
I don't suppose it can get much worse for her, or for Ericka.
The rest of you, know yourselves lucky that this is not your fate: though ultimately we must all face the matter of our death, we may be fortunate in that our suffering will not be comparable to those who will die in great agony.
Go well and do good things.
My mother's neighbour, whom I had driven to the Royal Marsden every day for more than a month last year
http://johnny9fingers.livejournal.com/205013.html
had her six month check-up last week. Last Saturday my mother 'phoned and told me the cancer has returned. Steph is being given the option of the complete removal of her tongue and upper oesophagus, or her allotted six feet. Steph is a few months younger than me. She has been a stalwart friend to my mum since dad died, and prior to that was a good friend to the old man. She and her partner Ericka have been family friends for more than twenty years.
My guess is she'll opt for a managed end to it all. Being fed through a tube, unable to speak, and in constant pain may be unbearable.
I don't suppose it can get much worse for her, or for Ericka.
The rest of you, know yourselves lucky that this is not your fate: though ultimately we must all face the matter of our death, we may be fortunate in that our suffering will not be comparable to those who will die in great agony.
Go well and do good things.
