Reply #39: Cancer is one ruthless motherfucker of a disease.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

My dad died from cancer, but it was "multiple myeloma"...bone marrow cancer...and by the time they diagnose you with that particular form of the disease, you are a dead man walking (he died a month after the diagnosis). It is not considered "treatable." But the doctor put him through a round of chemo anyway. My mom went nuclear on him, and rightfully so..."Why did you put him through that when you KNEW it wouldn't do any good?"

Oh well...he got paid, so that's something positive, right?

:sarcasm:

And for the record, the doctor DID admit that the chemo was a one in a million shot at doing anything other than making my dad puke his guts up.

I've been a Dennis Hopper fan for most of my life, and my sadness at his passing is mixed with a sense of relief that his suffering is over.

There are a lot of ways to die. Cancer shouldn't be one of them, but it is.

R.I.P., Dennis.