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Not even cutting edge. Just the normal shit everybody gets. We're...REALLY good at keeping old people alive these days. Like shockingly good.
Unfortunately in the case of some.
Sincerely, a critical care nurse
Walter Reed has the absolute best medical staff and facilities anywhere in the world.
Meanwhile, one of the nurses at my family's hospital decided it was okay to give my mother a double dose of chemo since she would be missing an appointment next month.
Congress people have access to more consistent application of medical technology, yes. But the actual tech is not different from what is (sometimes poorly) deployed elsewhere. That was my only point.
Is your mother aware that she probably needs the chemo to, you know, stay alive?
Not sure what the schedule conflict there can be here.
I am genuinely glad that you have never personally known someone who was actively undergoing chemo, and I hope that trend lasts for you.
In the event it does not, you should know before you say something like this again that almost all traditional chemo is absolute poison (not all are, but most), and it is given on the principle that it kills cancer cells more quickly than healthy cells. Given enough time and in enough volume, it will kill ALL the cells. In most cases, you literally don't need chemo to stay alive; you need to stay alive long enough to outrun the chemo. So the object is to try to time and dose it so that the majority of dying cells are the cancerous ones.
It's a delicate balance, or a calculated gamble, if you like. You're literally making a bet with your life (and future health, if you survive) that you won't cause as much harm to healthy cells as to cancerous ones, AND that what harm you do cause to healthy cells, you'll have enough of an immune system left to rebuild or overcome.
So to give someone a double dose is not only a masterpiece in stupidity and ignorance, it is a horrendously careless and life-endangering thing to do by someone who is actually paid to know better. I truly hope @[email protected]'s mom is doing okay and that somebody was able to stop that double-drip before it started. I can't even imagine.
EDITED to include post to which I replied, lol
Yeah, I'm aware. I'm talking about your mom missing her next scheduled dose.
Obviously.
You know, the way you would do if you want a resurgence?
I don't usually quote short posts, but you've been editing and I wanted to preserve the natural unique quality of the iteration I answered, hope you don't mind, @[email protected]
Are you a language bot? Because you clearly don't understand the conversation.
Clearly I am an outsider to the real conversation you're having. Happy to stay that way, though.
I invite you to read back through all this when you sober up, lol.
It was 20 years ago so I don't really remember why. It might have been radiation, not chemo, so there was less need for consistency
My better half works in a nursing home and... agree. Too many are kept alive long after their minds and quality of life disappear.
Yeah, the whole "occasionally torturing old people with dementia" part of my job is not what I signed up for when I became a nurse. But we continue to value the feelings of family members who might sue over the best interests of vulnerable patients. Welcome to America.
We regularly give the exact same treatment to Medicaid patients at my hospital that we give to rich patients. The key is being in a state with actually good Medicaid (Massachusetts). Lack of access in rural areas is more about corporations not making enough profit to continue providing services there. Which is why we need to make hospitals public again.