Small cell lung cancer is what got my mom. She did chemo, radiation therapy, you name it.
In the end, she went into the bathroom, threw up a lot of blood, and never woke up. They didn’t do an autopsy, but the assumption was that the cancer had just gotten too widely distributed throughout her system.
But, since she had spent much of her adult life helping my dad with one or the other of his medical problems, and she had been an HR director at Norman Regional Hospital for many years, she did focus on trying to keep the best quality of life that she could, right up to the end.
The irony was that she had quit smoking thirty years earlier. It was her sister that did her in. Since the sister was in stage 4 of stomach cancer, they let her smoke in her hospital room. And my mom was the primary caregiver who slept in that room and was there pretty much 24x7. So, her second-hand smoke is what got my mom.
Definitely focus on quality of life. Whatever you’ve got left, you should try to make those your best days, weeks, months, or years yet.
In the end, she went into the bathroom, threw up a lot of blood, and never woke up. They didn’t do an autopsy, but the assumption was that the cancer had just gotten too widely distributed throughout her system.
But, since she had spent much of her adult life helping my dad with one or the other of his medical problems, and she had been an HR director at Norman Regional Hospital for many years, she did focus on trying to keep the best quality of life that she could, right up to the end.
The irony was that she had quit smoking thirty years earlier. It was her sister that did her in. Since the sister was in stage 4 of stomach cancer, they let her smoke in her hospital room. And my mom was the primary caregiver who slept in that room and was there pretty much 24x7. So, her second-hand smoke is what got my mom.
Definitely focus on quality of life. Whatever you’ve got left, you should try to make those your best days, weeks, months, or years yet.