Reply #37: But you can FIGHT cancer

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we have medicines that allow us to fight it.
Given the choice between MS and cancer, honestly, cancer. I can fight it tooth and nail, and i;ll die KNOWING I could fight it. Long, hard, unbearably painful, but you can FIGHT IT! MS... all you can do it degenerate and die. We have few medicines that work, and nothing can actually STOP MS. There is no real fight, just the knowledge it WILL kill you, robbing you of every joy in life you have.

Both are long, slow, horrible ways to die... But one is just that next circle of hell lower, and worse.

My grandmother has rheumatoid arthritis. She has not been able to walk as long as I've known her (im 32). She has not been able to care for herself at all for nearly 10 years (she used to be able to cook food in the microwave and live assisted in an apartment. Now it's gotten so much worse). I have gout because that kind of arthritis is strong in the force.. er.. in my family.

When you are looking down that barrel of a gun... You choose the relative lesser of two evils. I don't blame her for her sentiments. She has a death sentence. She just wants one she can do something about.