It's enough to drive you nuts

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Everyone has an opinion on my health. Not so much here at DU, where at least in these forums everyone's tolerant and accepting of taking it day by day but keeping an eye on it, but among friends and family and ex-family and...

From the hospice nurse, she's convinced I won't be around 6+ months from now. I give her some credence because she's seen my condition in others other times, and maybe she's a straight-shooter, but it threw us for a loop. Up until now, no one wanted to to give me an expiration date... Now everyone's fixated on it.

From my ex-wife, who has her own medical (and other) issues, who insists if I just put totally healthy food in my body and maybe smoke the right kind of therapeutic cannabis, I can put this into remission (I have stage IV cancer, already spread to lungs and adrenals, and not sure where else (no scans for nearly a year) then I can live another 20 years...

To one of my car mechanics, who relates a story he heard from a "close friend" or something who tried some particular vitamin and it made him cancer free.... he's good with my old british car, but I'm not so sure about my current American body condition.

It seems <whining> that people that don't know the health condition status are just convinced that if I just tried this vitamin or that berry then everything will be okay. How do they know? I've seen the scans and stuff. I don't want to disbelieve, but I don't really believe any of that stuff is going to buy me remission - they'll only buy me the mental image of potential remission.</whining> And I don't want to say it doesn't work for anyone, just that I think I'm personally past the point where eating the right vegetable is going to fix me. Maybe if I ate the right vegetables 40 years ago, but not now.

What also pisses me off <pissoff> is people who post on goFundMe - and I don't know of anyone here, and if so, I would evaluate that separately - but say "Oh, I have stage 0 cancer and can you fund a trip to this spa in Italy that will make me better?". I mean, c'mon. </pissoff>

Anyway, that's my rant for today.
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