I don't want chemo therapy
I am a healthy 75 year old. , over the years I have been sick with colds,sore throat and other symptoms that I took care of myself with common sense remedies. I have occasionally been examined for a job physical but outside of a occasional dentist visit, I have had little contact with the medical profession.
Recently I saw blood in my urine. I let it go for a couple of weeks until I saw blood clots in my urine.a couple of times a day. There was no pain at all but I went to the doctor assigned to my retirement home to get a diagnosis. Doctor #1 sent me for an mri, testing my kidneys and other organs and FOUND NO TUMERS..
This was good news so Doctor #1 sent me to a eurologist, doctor #2. He sent a camera into my bladder and said I have ,what he called, an open sore in my bladder. Doctor #2 said he would have to go in there and take it out.
No surgery was done for a couple of months as doctor #2 was on vacation. On the day of the procedure, they put me to sleep and when I woke up I had a tube coming out of my penis, attached to a plastic beg connected to my leg which had to be drained every 2 hours.
The tube stayed in me for 1 week, draining my bladder. Doctor #2 tested my urine and there was no blood. Doctor #2 sent me for another mri and again, NO TUMERS.
Doctor #2 referred me to a oncologist and this doctor #3 wanted to sign me up right away for chemo therapy. I told him to hold on, I wanted to think about it. I have a decision to make, I have researched chemo therapy and there are definite negative side affects
I am in good health right now and while I may not be young anymore but I am not yet old. So, should I sacrifice my current good health? I have no pain,I can still run, walk every morning, I play chess, I still get a second glance from women and I can still kick ass.
I asked doctor #2, the eurologist, what would happen if I just let it go and he said I would die.
I have an appointment with doctor# 1 and he asked my daughter to attend. Is this an attempt to pressure me into taking the chemo?
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My daughter came with me to my appointment with doctor #1 and he gave the same scenario he gave me before but for the benefit of my daughter about how the tumor pennatrated the outer wall of the bladder. I explained my position in front of my daughter, that I only wanted non invasive treatment.
Doctor #1 did not object but explained what would happen if the cancer spread to my bones. This is meant to scare my daughter. I explained that I would be interested in non invasive treatment and doctor #1 said he would check it out.
After my meeting with doctor#1 I thought my intentions were clear.But I get a call from the social worker here at the home for old people, that my daughter had made an appointment with a surgeon. Who told her to do that?
The stradegy here seems obvious, they see my reluctance for chemo therapy and surgery, so they use my daughter by scaring her that if I don't go along with their plan , I would die.
I went to see doctor #4 and he said that eventually not only the bladder but the pro would have to come out. I asked ,how many die from this operation and he said around 1%. I told him not now and doctor#4 referred me to 2 more specialists. I am being passed around like a piece of meat that they all take a bite .He referred me to a oncologist and a immunologist.The oncologist called the next day and I told him to call back in a few weeks
I recieved another call from the immunolgist and when I said ,not now,. She said she would take me off the list of this univercity medical establishment.
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