We were somewhere around Tacoma in the middle of a rainforest when the drugs began to take hold.
If you ever asked for influenza and gotten a double inner ear infection and a chest cold instead, ask for your money back. Per Herr Doktor, the flu would have been more contagious but the suffering much less.
But the good news is that the meds are working and I should be back to full strength in short order.
Also, I’m agreeing very strongly with this QotD.
I’d like to see a change in US Food and Drug Administration policy where people with just a few months left to live should be free to try drugs that are currently in stage I trials or even drugs which have only been tried on other animals. If you are going to die then you should be free to try anything. If I had several months left to live due to cancer I’d rather try experimental drugs even if they might kill me sooner. If the result was simply to rule out the further use of an otherwise promising drug as least I’d die for some constructive purpose.
Herr Doktor: “You’re going to die in two months. This drug is experimental. It has been tested on animals and they show no ill-effects from it and it has helped some of them live longer. You might live longer or you might die in two months. Do you want to try some?”
Me: Oh hells yeah!
“If you are going to die then you should be free to try anything”
But only if you’re going to die, otherwise your ass belongs to the state.
I say Hell Yeah too – remember that if you have any control over my “oldness” !
In the meantime – you get and stay well – Mom says.
Baby steps, Guy.
But we’re all gonna die. It isn’t optional.
Therefore I will die.
Therefore, my ass is my own.
There are even some cancers out there for which you die so quickly they can’t even gather names together to make a clinical trial.
Anaplastic Thyroid cancer (what got Chief Justice Rehnquist) is one, most people are gone within 5 months.