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[QUOTE="DestroyYouAlot:1051106"]So, probably not many of you are aware of this, but my dad has been busily dying of stomach cancer (wide a side of lung tumorettes). The cancer isn't so much what's been killing him, as the fact that he hasn't been able to eat more than a small bowl of sherbet in a day, for weeks now, so he's been simply starving to death. All the anti-nausea meds he's tried have a) not really worked and b) given him a panoply of lovely side effects (ranging from potentially fatal hives to waking nightmares that "made [him] want to die"). Beyond that, the pain meds (some serious-ass morphine derivatives in rather large quantities) take hours to kick in, haven't been working that well, and constipate him to the point that he started puking up intestine contents. Finally, after resisting the idea since the beginning of all this, he got desperate enough to try "alternative therapies." (The final straw was when he asked the oncologist about Marinol pills and she told him "you're better off just smoking it.") Dispensing for the moment with the downright surreal experience of smoking a joint with my dad (even more surreal since it ended up being totally nonchalant), he sat on the porch for a few, went and sat inside for a few, then drifted off for a nap. Woke up and asked for beef stew; I left to pick up my brother from the train station, and when I came back he was working on chicken and rice soup. Which he apparently got up and got himself; he hasn't gotten his own food in over two months. He says he has "no pain"; the first time since before the diagnosis. Dangerous, immoral drugs fucking rule.[/QUOTE]
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