Everything About You Is Bringin' Me Misery
Entry 1 9:09 a.m. " Why he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. Grant that, and death is a benefit." -Wm. Shakespeare Jenny's third friend with pancreatic cancer that she has made, is likely going on hospice today. She has to decide. There is one more drug that they can try with a 10% chance of working . By working, I presume it means slow down the process of dying, because there is no cure for stage IV metastatic pancreatic cancer. Jenny spent much of yesterday again pleading and lamenting, and ultimately denying her life is foreshortened by PDAC. I don't think the latter is as meaningful as it once was, after the visit to the UW Liver Clinic, and after watching 3 people she befriended with the disease, each around her age, dying or rapidly heading toward the final reward. But I am wracked with sadness, for her pain, for her fear, for the battle ahead, and for the eventu...