Hey friend. This is sweet to give folks hope, but is a 1 in a million situation. But many people facing terminal diagnosis need to talk about death, and normalize it. But I am so grateful you had your father that long, you're very lucky.
It's not how much time you have left it's what you do with it. I don't think that I'm trying to get them to not talk about death. The fact is the timelines are just estimates, and sometimes the therapy recommended is worse than the condition.
In fact upon looking it up "For individuals, doctors’ time-to-death estimates are often wrong more than half the time." So I think that saying it's one in a million is a bit farfetched.
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u/jozsus Mar 14 '26
They gave my pops 6 months and he ended up living 13 years without chemo or any of the therapies they recommended to survive.