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Originally Posted by Cisco Kid
I have been going to a Chemo unit for 8 years.
My eyes are wide open as to what I have on my plate.
I pay my insurance, and have for over 35 years.
out of pocket drugs $100 a month 
Over the years I have become friends with may people @ the Cancer Center.
Luckily no one has matched Dr Cuomo time line . I have lost friends over years, not days.
If I would ask if anyone cancer buddies if they paid around $100 for meds they would all laugh.
As for the miracle recovery. I believe the Dr needs to put down the pen and spend some time at the hospital. We do not sit there at deaths door looking for three days.
The improvement in treatment just for me, thanks to research, new meds,,,
in the short time I have diagnose has went from a timeline ( average life span )
The Dr would say terminal,to being able to maintain and treat.
Now we have the good news, a possible cure with a drug in testing now with good results.
What Dr Cuomo wants is happing now.
IMO what the Dr wants is total control of health care.
I wonder if the good doc would have sent me to the death panel ? |
Exactly. Every day new things are being developed. NO one knows what prolonging someone's life for a month may bring.
I HATE these kinds of threads. It is well and good if YOU aren't the one with the cancer diagnosis. It sure FEELS different when you are told you have cancer, or your child has cancer, or someone else you love has cancer.
I do not like this discussion. AT ALL.
Cisco. Thank you so much for making this more real for us.
There are many of us quietly, valiantly, bravely fighting this damned disease. These kinds of conversation do not help them much.