 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | Mike, as Paul says, there is not a standard how one dies based on where you currently are. Your suggested scenario is one possibility. As you say, you are losing weight. This is certainly another possibility. The body can waste to the point of organs shutting down. In the very end it is usually bleeding to death or death from organs stopping their function.
Nobody really knows in advance what the final minutes will be like or the sequence of events. The toxic buildup before death usually affects the brain so we aren't lucid at the end.
I wish you the best and I'm sorry for what you are facing. Anything I can do, please feel free to send me a Private Message.
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
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