So, got a question. Metastatic endometrial cancer. Supposed to have a survival rate of between 70 and 91%, going by
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/586334
and
http://www.cancer.gov/types/uterine/hp/ ... atment-pdq
Is this true? I ask because that's what my mother died of. On a related note, how common is it for patients to contract C. Difficile infections while in hospital?
Makes me wish we'd had the money to bring her to America so we could actually have gotten some fucking diagnostics done, rather than waiting for months only for her to be bounced around between appointments without actual work being done.
She got blown off for months, then they found a baby sized tumor once they bothered to scan her, which didn't take long once they actually bothered to arrange it. Before and after, it was “Oh you’re on the waiting list. It’ll be a few weeks or months, but we’ll see what we can do.” This lead to her death in the hospital, cancer treatments having been way too late.
Of course, the road trip option was never really viable. My passport was expired and there's no way she could've driven herself. But still, being ABLE to pay for a scan at a private clinic could have saved her life. That continues to eat at me, at least a little. They sure did get that scan in a hurry when they felt like it. Shame it was months too late.