Uh? You are scared to go through treatment in case it doesn’t work and comes back stronger? Okay, extremely unlikely, but what would you have lost? Absolutely nothing.
Anyway, I’m glad I made you smile but you seem determined to look on the bleak side which is such a shame. ‘A lot of long term survivors’ doesn’t get close to the truth. The vast percentage of people who have cancer will survive and thrive. But they are the ones who put everything they have in to getting well because they love life and want more of it. They don’t sit around conjuring up worst case scenarios and convincing themselves armageddon is inevitable.
I’ve never been very convinced by the ‘there are people much worse off than you out there argument’ but then I have never needed persuading to save my own life. However, I will tell you that right now a 57 year old close friend is dying of motor neurone disease. This is the most cruel affliction you can imagine - she is two years in and totally paralysed apart from moving her eyes. She has no speech, is fed through a tube and lies prostrate 24hrs a day. And the cruellest thing of all is that from day of diagnosis there was never any hope. There is no treatment, the medics have no clue what causes MND and most people die in less than two years after acute suffering. But still my friend jumped at every drugs trial going in an effort to save her life.
You, like so many of us, have a disease which is, for the most part, cureable. So please, stop fantasising and get on with treatment. You owe it to all those who cannot help themselves, you owe it yourself and your family and friends - and you definitely owe it to the long-suffering dog!
