Drinking with Liver Cancer?
f уου′re drinking everyday (nοt smashed) bυt none thе less 2-4 glasses οf wine a day аnd a couple beers, аnd уου hаνе liver cancer, lymph node аnd lung cancer – given 5-10 months without chemo – hοw much wіll thаt much drinking take οff уουr life. Along wіth a few tokes a day аnd аbουt 5 cigars a day.
I’m not a doctor, I can tell you that you are taking a lot of time off of your life.
you’re worried about losing days or weeks, months or years? I had a girlfriend who drank considerably, mostly whiskey and vodka, she would even take vodka in water bottles to work with her. It sure did get to her; dead at age 26. She left a five year ancient daughter behind. Her family wouldn’t take the girl and she was turned over to the disorder. She went through just over a year of dialysis before her body just quit…the health check term was end-stage renal failure.
Depends on whether you are talking about yourself or a name else. Also you have not given sufficient statistics on the cancer treatments tried, current staging, whether you have been judged terminal and what your personal feelings might be. Have you spoken about these concerns with your oncologist?
Surely what you are doing will shorten your life to some extent and could easily possibly negatively look any left over quality of life.
That said, if it is you that is dying then I would not oblige you having a drink if that was what you wanted. You will find that the sicker you get the less alcohol will affect you naturally and might not feel pleasant, so if you still delight in drinking then initially you need to talk to your Dr and make sure you have exhausted all your health check options, whether prescribed pain or anxiety meds taken properly might help much more than self medicating with alcohol. Just make sure you have all the info you really need to make these type of complex decisions.
This is not a simple issue so do your research. Dying is not something on paper in black and colorless and it is up to the person dying to find out what works for them, but there is no reason to speed up your demise or complicate your left over quality of life. You do not want your access to pain meds curtailed because you had some superfluous drinks in the months preceding your death. Alcohol will not kill cancer pain no matter how much alcohol you drink.
Sometimes Drs will write you off if they reckon you have chose to just get drunk until you pass away so any conversation about this with your Dr needs to be thought out in advance. It might also be especially helpful to get Hospice involved. Their policy ordinarily involves compassionate use of alcohol as part of the dying process.
excellent luck with this very complex issue.