Holy crap! Our thoughts are with you!

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For those not familiar, Stage 4 indicates that malignancy is no longer localized in a single tumor site, but has appeared in a remote site.

Hang in there Jimbo.
I wish you a speedy recovery and expect you to one day walk among those who each day raise the survival rate.

Stage 4 Brain Cancer | New Health Guide

But if it is in the brain, what can you do? Not like an arm that you can cut off. Cut off too much brain and well..... Besides, it metastasized so not sure what the odds are. A few months to a couple of years. The problem is that after your time is up, you don't just die suddenly. It drags out and out while your brain goes down and down. Not sure I would want to drag it out and deteriorate. I'd seriously had considered hospice at this point and just let it go

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good grief

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It's all my fault, I bring it out in him.

You're being too polite.

Last year, literally, wife's friend had that. Surgery delayed the inevitable for a few months. Turned from a bright cheery person to a demented lump of flesh. Not pretty. Not quite the same after surgery. Not really worth it from what we saw. Like I said, hospice, make them comfortable and let them pass peacefully. Not much sense in dragging out the show and making someone progressively uncomfortable.

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You people would rather have a sugar coated version as opposed to a real possibility? Fine.

Jim will make a full recovery and be back to normal in 2 months and live a long and happy life till 105 where he will die peacefully surrounded by family and friends. Happy?

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OTOH....
My summer next door neighbor had a brain tumor removed while in his late 30's. He lived well beyond 10 years before it returned and took him. Was he the same man post op? No. Did he enjoy those 10 years? I'm sure he did.

Also, JimB isn't your wife's friend.

This just in.....


Washington, Jan 2 (IANS) The majority of cancer cases can be explained by "bad luck" rather than the result of environmental factors and inherited genes, a US study said Thursday.

The study, published in the US journal Science, found that two-thirds of adult cancer incidence across tissues might be caused by random mutations that occur in dividing healthy stem cells.....

https://in.news.yahoo.com/two-thirds-cancer-cases-due-bad-luck-study-030004475.html

Now, let's get serious. You've seen nothing about Jim's condition or prognosis, yet you want to put him out to pasture. On what basis? Death Panel care rationing?

This thread is about wishing him good fortune and hoping for the best for jimb. Not gloating about the real possibilities we all know and are familiar with, not just you.

Your posts above are in really poor taste. Many of the people on this board have had first hand experiences with cancer, and where there is a will, there is a way. State of mind is a huge part of beating it or succumbing to it. Jimb in good spirits and a positive outlook has a lot better chance, especially after a successful surgery.

Lets hope that if you ever get sick, some individual doesnt tell you to just give up because all is lost. Shame on you. Wish him well and stop posting like a jerk.

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Don't know. I saw a pic of him and he wasn't 30 either. Was your neighbor Stage 4? I'm just going off what I have seen in the last 10 years and statistics. Stage 4 is rated at 2 years at his age.

Working with those patients here and there, it isn't a joy for them to be in that state. Doesn't bother me because it is part of the job to find a caregiver for them but I can see the toll it takes on the family caregivers who cannot clock out, go home, shower it off and forget it. Talking to them, it seems like they are doing it for the family so IDK.

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I'm just going off what was said. Stage 4 brain cancer. I did check out the survival rates for that age. Young kid, better. Old man, not so good. In what world is a stage 4 brain cancer good especially if it has spread? As I said, hospice might be a good answer since they can make him as comfortable as possible for the final days.

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You could impress us all and stop posting.

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