I don't want to be too optimistic, because everyone dies one day (I'm sorry, but it's true) and there's no such thing as a miracle drug. But anything's better that sitting in your house, sorting through your stuff, waiting to die. Mom's a fighter, so this gives her a goal and a reason to move forward. For that alone, I am unspeakably grateful.
My mom was accepted into the second stage of immunotherapy trials. The first stage demonstrated that the therapy (she says it's the same one Jimmy Carter received) works on pancreatic cancer; the second stage adds another drug that's supposed to make the pancreas more receptive to the first.
I don't want to be too optimistic, because everyone dies one day (I'm sorry, but it's true) and there's no such thing as a miracle drug. But anything's better that sitting in your house, sorting through your stuff, waiting to die. Mom's a fighter, so this gives her a goal and a reason to move forward. For that alone, I am unspeakably grateful.
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