FYI, to anyone who remembers backwoodsbob

[marble falls]

92. Its a personal choice. Palliative medication isn't one size fits all. But pain....

will make one open to options and find the one that works. Never much cared for BWB, but I certainly identify with his situation.

Opioids are no fun for me. They make the pain different more than alleviate it. Sometimes by the time the pain is 'gone', so is the rest of the day and any memory of it. Cannabis works very well with me.

Part of the "ritual" with both my parents passing was putting a ton of Oxycontin and other pills and liquids down the drain. My dad died of colon cancer that had metastasized to his brain and liver, my mother died after being cured of breast cancer years before getting pancreatic cancer. We had offered my mother pot for the nausea of chemo with her breast cancer, but she chose not to. By the time she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer - she passed within a month and she was almost unconscious for almost that whole time.

You do what you need to deal with pain and no one should judge. I'm lucky. My cancer is more a nuisance than a pain. My options are simple but they are my options.

I hope BWB is either joking or gets his miracle. I also hope he stays on discussionist.