88 and Dying.

Well, see, I’m a fighter, so I’d be getting every bit of information I could from my doctor as to why he said that, details about my condition, is that just his opinion or are there statistics to back him up. I’d research the everloving hell out of my condition, get a second opinion, find out what self help strategies I could employ, and put into practice everything medically and therapeutically that I considered to be sound.

I’d make sure all my affairs were in order, (I don’t have much so that part would be easy,) and then, because relationships are way more important to me than anything else, I’d spend as much time as I possibly could with family and friends, making lots and lots of good memories.

Whether I lived another 30 years or died within weeks, I would die knowing I had fully lived, exactly the way I wanted to! ❤️
 

One of my sons is a doctor. He's told me many times that a prognosis is an educated guess that can often be wrong.
Years ago my wife was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer that spread to her brain. My son told me that she has six months to live. He was wrong. She lived almost 5 years after her diagnosis. Get a second opinion. Get your affairs in order. Live every day to the fullest. Surround yourself with those you love.
Why doctors predict life expectancy | Ohio State Medical Center (osu.edu)..................
 
I have a friend that's an emergency room doctor, just this past Friday he told me about a woman who came into the ER the night before with abdominal pain. Turns out it is cancer to far advanced for any hope. Sixty three years old and he had to give her life an expiration date of less than three months.

We all hear the stories, a few months shy of retirement and they die, or died suddenly at fifty, or forty. Never sick a day in their life and gone in a blink.

My point is every single day is a gift. Do what makes you happy, strive to enjoy each day. So for me a doctors diagnose for the end of my life wouldn't change how I'm living today, I'll just keep on keeping on.
 

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Believe it or not.. Doctors aren't always right!
@Mitch86...hang in there.
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Gee whiz I never heard of a doctor being wrong. :ROFLMAO:

Mitch, I hope you can live your life fully each day and enjoy every minute of it and I hope your doctor is off by a decade at least. Don't you dare give up. Enjoy, enjoy, enjoy. Do it for yourself. I wish you the best of everything from my heart. - @chic
 
Mitch, we of faith say that "God is in charge". I've heard several stories about people who were given months to live by their doctors and they lived for years. I agree that you should live your life to the fullest. Indulge yourself in the things you love most, often. Get your affairs in order. These are things we all should be doing, even without the prognosis you were given.
 
I agree with just about what everyone else has said - get your affairs in order, live your life to the fullest. Be with your loved ones. I have a sister who had stage 4 breast cancer several years ago, and it traveled to her kidney, stage 4, but she's living her life to the fullest! She said she's not going to let it get to her. She's learned to live with it. I have never seen a happier and more cheerful person than my sister!
 
I spoke to a good friend v.good friend a week ago - we have known each other for 61 yrs - never fallen out at all...........always have a laugh and joke but this time it sounded different ; no jokes ; no quirky moments and lots of coughing from him not me I just get breathless! I have now been informed that he is lying in hospital still alive but unconscious with chronic heart failure and not expected to live..............he is 83 now. I will never see him again cannot even make his forthcoming funeral only a miracle or two can change things ......................my view just savour the moments that's all we really have?
 
I love the explanation given by some pro-spiritualists who say that as we approach death closer and closer that there is a host of family members and friends standing as if on a river bank waiting for our arrival when rejoicing will begin!! hallelujah !!

jeff buckley but leonard cohen and katie Lang both did an excellent rendition!!
 
Just try to be comfortable as possible. Since no cure or medication offered. Decide to avoid all doctors.
Have a friend who will be 90 soon, that just lives each day, not giving it much thought.
Just do things you still enjoy. Hugs
 
No doctor or expert or any other should make such a claim. I have been given the 3 months, well beyond that and feel bad with every issue I experienced and realize I may not wake up. For that reason enjoy every moment, kindness and Love. I'm thankful for each New day, Being Thankful really easing life.... Much Love to All. Never give up
 

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