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[artonic]

A few weeks ago my doctor told me that I have cancer. He said I have about a 17% chance of survival. I have started treatment. I would prefer not to go into details

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[crassy]

I would sell my house, grab my family and go on an extended holiday seeing everything I haven't already seen, and some things I have already seen. I would then go home and spend the last weeks or months with my family and friends.

I have a 5 year old daughter, so I would make time to write her letters, one for every year of her life up to 30, plus video and audio recordings so she has something of me.

I would also exhaust all medical possibilities (aside from woo) trying to fight it. If/when that time came, I would ask for painkillers to keep me comfortable and die at home peacefully surrounded by family and friends.

[mofoburrell]

This is all along my thoughts. I hate moving though, so I don't know if I'd sell the house. Maybe a second mortgage? :P I'd definitely do the letters and recordings things, especially if I had kids.

[joospjos]

I have no idea how loans work where you are, but... if you take out a second mortgage and spend all that money, won't your remaining family inherit the debt once you're gone? And if they won't, what kind of bank would agree to loan you money if they knew they would probably not get the money back?

[hahahabye]

Depends on how long the Doc says I have to live. If it was a couple of years, I guess I'd get my finances and shit in order, go learn to do something I've never done before, travel.

[a_pawson]

I think that would depend on the length of time I had left. If it's months rather than weeks I would liquidate as many of my assets as possible, take the cash and go and do all the things I always wanted to do but never did. Travel to all the parts of the world I had never seen would be the first thing on my list one.

[fixx]

I've been more or less handicapped with one health issue or another my whole life, which is probably not a problem you've had to deal with but now that you are in treatment it may yet be

[crassy]

I would definitely buy a whackload of drugs and get fucking wrecked out of my brain.

You don't really need to go where there are legal, you can find them anywhere. If you go to the Pacific Northwest in North America, they grow there naturally (along with a lot of other places around the world).

And, for the record, I give great advice when I am high.

[artonic]

I actually would like to know more if you have time.

[fixx]

okay, I've put it in my todo list to contact the wacky lady. I've been up all night trying to meet a deadline and I took time out of that to reply to your post because I saw it and felt compelled. I am going to have to sleep before calling wacky lady as she exhausts me even when I'm well-rested.

One other thing about cancer. I've heard that some doctors believe that the mainstream treatment, chemo, is the opposite of what should be used. That most cancers attack the immune system and so does chemo, but that by boosting the immune system you can actually fight cancer. I'm not saying I entirely believe that but if I had cancer I'd almost certainly avoid chemo as it could kill me faster given the immune deficiency I was born with (not HIV).

Right now I'm doing all sorts of stuff to boost my immune system as I have Lyme Disease and beating lyme is difficult for people without immune issues.

I suspect this comment will have fueled some good google searches.

[myarra]

This is heartwarming :)

[artonic]

This made me cry a bit..

When you lived, what happened next? After being in that mentality that you were going to die for so long, how did you fall back into the flow of life?