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I was wondering if any of you encountered something like my encounter the other day.
A man that occasionally does work for me loss his wife just a couple of months ago.
What he did for an income was to use a cauterizer to burn off warts, aging spots, and skin tag.
His wife was a professional registered nurse working in a hospital. She accompanying him a couple months ago, which she usually did because he had no formal medical training. No wallpaper. He did, however, had a certificate showing that he was trained in the use of the cauterization device.
So when I question him about his wife, not being with him he said she died of breast cancer. I said breast cancer can be treated with mastectomy surgery. She was only in her mid 40s when she died of breast cancer I thought that was strange, but I also thought it was probably because of financial reason because in the Philippines, no pay no play even in the hospitals. He said they had the money for the surgery, but she chose not to do the surgery because of the after effects of not having any breast and not having any armpits. Her being a nurse I'm sure she was well aware of the after surgery effects of a double mastectomy. He said she chose not to do the surgery. The breast cancer killed her. I thought that was kind of strange because she was a nurse working in a hospital and must've known a lot about the decision she made.
So here's my question have any of you had to make a decision or help your spouse make a decision in a matter of double mastectomy, or die of cancer?

My youngest daughter is a breast cancer survivor. Luckily, they were able to get it all surgically, tho it took three tries before the margins were clear.

Had the third attempt failed, a mastectomy was the next step and she really, REALLY wanted to avoid that. She wouldn't have chosen death as the alternative tho.

My wife has beat 3 cancers. She has a team of doctors that check her all the time. I feel confident in whatever decisions they would advise her to make.

She has Colo/rectal, Melanoma, and Thyroid cancer. All at the same time. They treated the Melanoma first, with chemo, then surgery. After that was healed, they attacked the colo/rectal with radiation, then surgery. She had a bag for several months, then they reversed that, and she is still suffering the after effects of that 3 years later. Did the thyroid last with survery, then she did one year of Immunotherapy.

So she has been through the wringer.


Take care everyone.

Gene