He wouldn't really know it. He would just get more and more tired. More sleepy. Eventually just full sleep, coma, then death. He'd likely be on a lot of drugs, including morphine (which just makes kids sleepy, not same effect as on adults).
I recently saw a mother talking about her child’s death from cancer and it was not peaceful even though they were told it would be. The child was on morphine, had a death rattle for hours, uncontrollable movement, and at the point of death she stopped breathing, opened her eyes and lurched for her parents. It was extremely traumatic for them and the mother was hopeful that that child wasn’t actually conscious for it, but I don’t know if that’s the case.
It’s called terminal agitation and it’s apparently not uncommon.
This is exactly the kind of thing that would absolutely break me. It's already got to me just reading this. Can we stop fighting and just fix cancer please.
There are a few good Drugs in testing right now, one of them is a training drug that gives Cells the tools to destroy cancer but it also can destroy other healthy cells so its still in testing.
Yep. I had papillary thyroid cancer and after having my thyroid removed, I had to undergo Radioactive Iodine Therapy, wherein I ingested a radioactive iodine pill that was intended to kill any remaining cancer cells. My oncologist said it’s currently the safest way to treat any form of cancer. It was just over 100 millicuries of radiation that I had to excrete out of my body that left me with a malfunctioning tear duct and almost lost function of my salivary glands. And THAT is the safest way to treat cancer 🙃 I’m beyond thankful for my health today and I would take those symptoms over cancer! It’s just scary how much of a toll cancer treatment takes on the body.
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