The mother could be just thinking long term for her son, Radio therapy is not nice and neither is chemo, I would not wish it on my worst enemy.
When I was 22 I got leukemia over a 4 month period I had 4 lots of chemo, each getting stronger, My blood levels went very low the climbed again just in time for my next lot of chemo I was reasonably ok with it till the last one and fook me I was ill, and I mean ill.
I cam through ok and the doctor said you now have a choice, you are in remission so you can have a bone marrow transplant or not its your choice, go away and think about it for a month then come back and see us.
A month went by and I decided i did not want the bone marrow transplant because if the cancer came back there was very little they could do second time round, but if I kept the bone marrow my chances of survival was better.
Well I did not get a choice i was told I was having it as I had done so well with my chemo.
22 years on I wished I never had it and fought it alot more.
I went into hospital on the Saturday evening and on the Sunday I was given a massive bag of bright orange liquid, it was chemo, this killed my bloods.
I then went on to have 6 fifteen minute sessions of radio therapy over the next 3 days this was head to toe, it was 4 times more than the Hiroshima nucular bomb pumped out but for only 15 mins at a time.
I then got another drip shoved into me with a bag of brown liquid, this was the bone marrow from my brother, the that was it.
This is where it started, I was confined to solitary confinement for 8 weeks, only parents aloud to visit, I was burned from my lips down into my stomach so could not eat for 3 weeks so on a feed bag, was on a diamorphene drip and had the most horrendous hallucinations so got myself took off it. I went from 12 stone when I went in to just under 7 in 6 weeks, had host verses graft disease in the bowel (my body trying to kick the bone morrow out as it was not mine.)
Now 22 years on I have arthritis in both shoulders and elbows, hardening of the arteries, lungs have hardened, have had a cataract removed from one of my eyes already, and god only knows what else it has done that has not raised its ugly head yet. all of theses symptoms are what I got told I would be very prone to in the future AFTER I had the bone marrow transplant.
Oh and I am sterile from the cancer so no kids for me.
so whilst this mother might have wanted her son to not suffer maybe just maybe she wanted her son to all the facts before she made probably one of the hardest decisions she will ever have to take.
Just my 2 cents
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