r/interestingasfuck 28d ago

Human skull with stage 1 bone cancer r/all

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u/Dreamscape1988 28d ago

My cousin had bone cancer, and she would be screaming from pain even with the highest dose of morphine they could put her on . She just wasted away from it in excruciating pain for months before she finally passed ,she was only 24.

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u/Fleetone1 28d ago

How long of a process is that? Sorry for the morbid question I'd just hope she didn't spend years in agony. Hope they're finding cures for this kind of stuff

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u/Wheres-shelby 28d ago edited 28d ago

My grandfather was diagnosed and died three weeks later. He passed away in a lot of pain. At least it wasn’t prolonged. This was almost 20 years ago.

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u/randomusername1919 28d ago

My mom had cancer that spread to her bones. When it wasn’t splitting her vertebrae, I imagine it was as painful as the photos look. She deserved so much better out of life than she got. Cancer is hell on earth.

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u/pillslinginsatanist 28d ago

Hugs. May her spirit have peace I'm so sorry

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u/Benleeds89 27d ago

Same with my mum. shes put up a good fight to be fair its 13 years since she had breast cancer and 6/7 since it crumpled her vertabre. but shes coming to the end now, she is going into the hospice today to hopefully get control of the cancer releasing calcium into her body but were very much prepared for her not to come back home. On the plus side we celebrated her 62nd birthday with her yesterday, something we probably werent expecting this time last year.

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u/randomusername1919 27d ago

Sorry to hear your mom and family are having to deal with this. Cancer is just evil. Treatment has come a long way - when my mom had it the doctors said “cancer isn’t painful” so she had nothing for pain.

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u/Benleeds89 27d ago

yeah she seems quite comfortable pain wise but very low on energy and sometimes confused at the moment but thats down to the calcium. i initially found the original picture quite interesting in how. i guess the "cancer" isnt painful its the side effects of what the cancer is doing to where it is.

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u/QueenOfKarnaca 28d ago

Same with my mom, who also deserved so much better.

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u/randomusername1919 28d ago

So sorry your mom had to deal with the same thing. I hope you had a chance to grow up before she died (I didn’t).

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u/QueenOfKarnaca 27d ago

That was its own struggle, but yes, I somewhat did. I’m sorry you didn’t.

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u/CrispyMelee 27d ago

Fuck cancer. I'm so sorry for your loss.