What would you do if you found out you had cancer and no more than 2 years to li!
Question: two years that would have been great for my mum she only got 4 months
Answers: two years that would have been great for my mum she only got 4 months
Oh, Hon, I would read my bible and make sure I was right with Jesus. That way I'd know I had eternity!
First I would get baptized, (which needs to be done like yesterday) then go through my belongings to see what I wanted to give to who. Then make sure I took plenty of pics and videos for my son so that he could remember me, since he's only 2. Spend as much time as possible with loved ones, and let them know how much i love them. Enjoy life and try not to think about the inevitable.
I wouldn't die of the cancer...I would die of being "accidentally" spiked on a giant cross they have on churches.
enjoy the time thats left i guess..what more can a person do.easier said than done i know.but as the saying goes "were hear 4 a good time not a long time" my belief is we are just passing through,enjoy this world till the end....
Live in such a way so that when you die you rejoice and others will cry!
I have cancer. 2 years ago, I thought I was going to die when my liver started failing. I live alone and I was scared. I am not like the people you see on the life alert commercials. I am only 55 years old and very active in recreational sports like snowboarding, skiing, and guided dirt bike tours.
The first thing I did was make sure my beneficiaries were current on all my accounts.
The next thing I did was think of what brought me the most pleasure in life so I could re-experience these things one last time. This may be a surprise, but it was not sex. It was the quad tours in Baja and dirt bike tours here in the USA. As my liver got worse, I decided to schedule a 1 day quad tour in Baja Mexico before it was too late. I also scheduled a bus tour of the canadian rockies because I had never seen them before. My doctor warned me not to go, because I could become Jaundiced on that trip and would have to find a hospital quickly. He explained that this could be dangerous in a foriegn country. I ignored his advice and went anyway.
I turns out that my liver recovered. My new prediction is now 5 years, but that is not soon enough to make me quit my job and schedule another tour somewhere. I still have a little time. I still have my job. I am trying to pad my sons inheritence with a few more years of work before I quit. I want to make sure he has something for the future, and that the mother has money to help him through college.
This is easy for me, I just finished chemo/radiation and surgery a couple of months ago and did think about this while I was waiting for it to be staged. First of all I am saved so I know I will be with the Lord and that made it bearable for me to imagine. I would spend as much time with my family as possible. I did tell my daughters what they should each have and what I wanted to have done at my funeral. Luckily, I was early stage and I am a cancer survivor so now I can spend as much time with my family but for many, many years to come.
I am on pallative treatments for advanced chronic myeloid leukemia. When things sunk in when i was dx'd. I went to an inexpensive lawyer, filed a living will. Then i went to see our local funeral home, made final arraingments, I plan on being cremated, less expensive.
I went thru my belongings, and picked out what to be cremated in, and started cutting down on my "junk" I wouldn't use again. I shipped a trunkful of stuff to my daughter, that I had collected over the years. I also began journal, which goes to my daughter when I am gone.
I did all this in the event something happens before hand, or should I be in an accident, everything is all taken care of, and it won't burden my family.
As for now, I continue to work, I do have fun times, and I am continuing treatments such as they are. I do not worry about the petty things getting to me, and don't get stressed out over stupid little things anymore.
I spend time with my kids and my new grandchild, I write and draw, and take the time to stop and smell the roses, while everyone else rushes around.
There is no desire to create a list of things I would like to do before I die. I would never get to do them anyway, and I wouldn't enjoy them if I had to rush to get them all done. I talk to more people, and I listen to the older generation, and write in my journal the things I did and seen that day. (needless to say, I have over 20 journals filled in almost three yrs.)
The life expectancy of my leukemia is 5-7 yrs. it's been 3, so that leaves 2-4 yrs. left. Will I die in that time frame? I hope not, but one never knows, a bus might come from nowhere and zap me....