Hello everyone,
My name is Christina. I have been coming on this site for about 2 months and enjoy hearing other peoples stories. Sometimes the stories make me burst into tears and sometimes they make me want to jump for joy.
I do in one sense understand people who accept this disease as a death sentence and enjoy the rest of their time with their family but for me I say fight as hard as you can. When we found out my boyfriend had Cholangiocarcinoma with a tumor 8.6 CM, they told us there was nothing they could do for him and sent him home with one internal stent on the left side of the liver and one external stent on the right and a bag of pain medication and told us to enjoy the rest of his life with his family. He was only 29 years old and has a daughter 6 at the time.
We could not accept this and contacted every hospital to get different opinions. We did finally find a doctor Nicholas Nissen, M.D. at Cedars- Sinai hospital in L.A. that was able to help us and took a chance with him and performed a 16 hour surgery removing all cancer.
Anyway, what I am saying is do what you feel. If you feel this is your time, then do so and I pray for everyone of you patients and caregivers but if you don't fight for your life, who will.
Don't just pray for a miracle, Expect one.
WITH ALL MY LOVE AND PRAYERS GOING OUT TO ALL OF YOU. CHRISTINA.