What would you do if the doctor told you that you only had 6 weeks to live?

Question

The doctors told my father this last night :(

Answer 1

I think a lot of you guys are missing the point of the question. What would you do if you only had 6 weeks left? Not how many opinions do you need. If I had 6 weeks left to live I'd make sure to drink the finest every night, eat the food I love, make sure to get with a beautiful woman and live it up. Do as many things in your financial means possible, you don't take your bank account with you when you die. I'd make sure to fly out to Chicago and watch a Bears game, try to spend time with those close to me, and that's about it. If I wanted to visit some country I would do it.

Answer 2

I'd get another doctor and then immediately get a 2nd and 3rd opinion, unless the doctor sufficiently explained through what testing and experience did he/she come up with a figure of 6 weeks!!! Is this an highly staged cancer with several metastasized areas?? My friends doctor told him the same thing, only it was 4 weeks, I believed it and so did my friend. That was over a year ago and my friend is better than ever and a survivor of lung and colon cancer. No doctor should give a specific date like that, even though their EGOs think they have the right, they are not GOD and cannot predict death down to the weeks. Anyway, if that's the case, what did the doctor do...did they do the right thing like make a Hospice referral...did they ask the patient about Hospice or what their desires around death were?? Are there any pain issues??

Answer 3

You should get a second or third opinion as doctors can often be wrong in their predictions. No one knows for sure how long someone has to live. You really do not provide much information to give any type of accurate answer, so it is difficult to speculate.

Seek out a second opinion and make sure all options have been considered. You would be surprised how many people I personally know who were given a similar prognosis but got a second opinion . . and were given more options. (three were told that their multiple abdominal tumors were inoperable and they were terminal . . yet they each found a surgeon willing to operate and at least one of them is now no evidence of disease . . ).

Remember, there is always hope. Best to you.

Answer 4

My mother in law was told she had weeks to live 2 years ago.
She's still struggling but the treatments she went through (radiation and chemo coupled to Tarceva) extended her life and it's been a good quality of life.
Don't give up hope hun. Fight.
What I'd do is take each day and say everything I needed to and write things down in a journal. Memories, dreams, my wishes. I'd spend each moment I could reminding everyone I loved how special they were and why.

Answer 5

Awww I feel so bad for you. I know exactly how that feels; my mom died of cancer as well. Except they gave her a couple hours to live once she was in the hospital and she lived about a week. I wish she'd still be here, she'll never see me graduate, get married. But it's something that you'll learn to live with.

I'll give you my advice; when I found out that she was going to die soon I was sooo upset. I thought that I'd never get over it and go back to normal life. Living with only my dad and brother seemed really painful, no one I could relate to or tell my problems to. But after her death I have to admit....I was sort of releaved. Like, she was in a lot of pain and I was wishing that it'd just end so that she could be eternally happy. So she passed away and she didn't seem so far away. When she was in the hospital, I missed her so much, and it hurt to know that she'd never be home; I could feel that her presence wasn't here. But as soon as she died....it felt so much better. Like she WAS there....I strongly believe that her spirit is here with me and that she's always here and that I'll never be lonely again. That was her personality....always everyone else before herself. She didn't care about herself, only other people.
So if your dad does pass away, you should talk to him before hand. Ask him to leave you signs that he's still with you, and trust me, you'll feel a lot better.

Answer 6

Definitely get at least two other opinions. Doctors aren't gods although some of them think they are and deeply resent any questioning of their diagnoses. Frankly I find it rather disturbing any doctor would make a statement like that to a patient, flat out. There are ALWAYS treatments, ALWAYS. And of course, there is always hope and prayer, but do get your father to at least two other oncologists.

Answer 7

Well, if I knew for SURE this doctor was correct I think I'd make the rounds to all my friends and family and tell them how much I've loved them and appreciated them in my life. Then I'd probably try and take a trip to somewhere where I've always wanted to go or do something I've always wanted to do. God's blessings on your dad and your family. Be strong.

Answer 8

in the previous you're saying something, check along with her scientific medical doctors and notice in the event that they have instructed her. in the event that they have not, they could desire to have. and you may desire to seek advice from them approximately her 'quite often' well-being. make confident she's bodily waiting to handle the information and not flow in to a heart attack while she hears it. If her 'quite often' well-being is stable, then the scientific medical doctors could desire to have instructed her by using now. If this is not any longer, then it is the only reason i could think of they have not instructed her yet. I confronted the comparable ingredient in June of this 300 and sixty 5 days, and the scientific medical doctors instructed mom what grew to become into occurring in the previous they instructed me. i'm undecided, yet i think of in terms of the person being in the disaster, they could desire to tell them of it, yet no longer if this is a minor newborn. Or if the affected person is mentally handicapped and can't comprehend what's being suggested. She could be putting on the 'brave act' for the kinfolk hoping to maintain them at a 'popular' point and to maintain them from feeling sorry for her. And in the previous she is going is the suited time to envision into the criminal factors of it. make confident there's a Will made and that style of ingredient. And to make confident all of us is conscious what she needs. some want to be buried, like my mom needed, others want an option. My mom knew in the previous the scientific medical doctors suggested a be conscious, that she grew to become into demise. And whilst she could no longer make it completely sparkling to them, she could desire to to me, and that i observed her desires. i did no longer want to, yet i do no longer flow against momma as quickly as she has her state of suggestions to something. i'm sorry on your soreness and rigidity you're under and could be under sooner or later, i understand all too nicely the sentiments of it. i could provide something to have 4-6 extra weeks with my mom, yet this is impossible now. have fun along with her now, while you have her. enable her plot and plan her little at the back of off and revel interior of something of her existence. She's earned that suitable.

Answer 9

Words cannot express what my heart is feeling for you and your family. You must be strong. If this message was given to me, I would go and at least get more opinions or ask to try some experimental drugs. NEVER GIVE-UP HOPE.

Answer 10

First I'd like to say, sorry to hear about your father. I think if this happened to me I'd try to get to Australia. I've always wanted to go there. I'd take my kids also and I wouldn't care what it cost.