If the massive increase in saliva hadn’t affected your family member’s willingness to leave the house it’s one of those things that would be amusing, but it’s a real shame. Yes, cancer complicates everything. When I lost almost all my hair–including part of my eyebrows and a lot of eyelashes–I discovered I couldn’t eat or drink anything without my nose dripping like a faucet. It made eating around other people really uncomfortable.
@anon61221983 Yes, treatments are definitely better, more effective, and more targeted. Ideally any cancer should be caught as early as possible but I was late stage 3 when I was diagnosed and yet the treatment wasn’t that bad. Admittedly I had testicular cancer which is extremely treatable. It, thyroid cancer, and a few others are so treatable that one of my doctors called them “good”, saying, “If you’re gonna get cancer they’re the ones to get.” I hope soon the same can be said of lung and pancreatic cancer and leukemia too. Those tend to be so aggressive and the treatments so serious that, no joke, it’s really debatable whether the remedy is worse than the disease.
@Medievalist I hope you can avoid dying painfully and horribly, and in your melanoma experience it sounds like you did exactly what you should have done in going through several doctors until you found one who’d do a biopsy. I’ve known too many people who stuck with a doctor either out of loyalty or ignorance, even when it was detrimental to their health.
