After a exam and blood tests a urologist has informed my grandfather (89) he has Prostate Cancer. He doesn't believe it. He also no longer believes he has Diabetes and that the "small pills can't really do any good because, well, they are so small...." Does it matter what he believes? He is content, not in pain and takes the medication prescribed to him...
My mom prefers the son who molested me to well me, so much pain I can't tell you...It is so painful when your mom doesn't like you, I mean primal.
I gotta get out of here...
Anyway, back to your grandpa. He or any adult doesn't have to get treatment for cancer. So I don't think there's any legal issue. I mean at 89 what are ya goin' do?
When it comes to health problems - my mom is a retired nurse, she should and does know better. I told her she was a sheeple, she'd buy anything the doc said, even if he is wrong. Going to the doc appts with her was a trip.
Oh well, all of that is over now. After doing the best I could, she disowned me/my adult kids and took up with the paid caregiver.
Grand ma was same way, She thought the radiations was medicine and didn't understand why she could not just keep taking it. She could not comprehend that what was healing her was also tearing her system sown.
try psychology, send a pack of eye drops to your self, tell her you got them over seas on line because they are not FDA approved and very potent, use them three times a day, see if it works, you never know.
or you may just have to listen to he r be mad at you for her eyes that have no fix. Which is ducedly UN FAIR!
My mom has started her issue up about her eyes again. Two years ago I ran her all over town even to a retina specialst about her eyes....well they are just getting worse and will continue to get worse and there is nothing they can do. So she started this whole campaign again with the eye doctor circuit. I told her I am not going to leave work and take her to these doc's since they already said nothing can be done. So the poor caregiver is going to do it. She keeps thinkg some shot, or spray or pills will make her eyes better. No matter how much I say there is nothing that can be done, she WILL NOT ACCEPT IT. Oh well guess she will her it for herself instead of them talking to me on the side. My mother has never listened to me in my entire life...never...she never ever trusted me for anything.....really something else!
I know about genetics...You know people who are totally indifferent to teeth and gum care yet have no cavities, others obsessive flossers and dental visits and they have a mouth full of crowns. No guarantee one way or t'other.
I think it is good you had a cry over your Dad, We miss people we love when they are gone, why shouldn't we. Some sadness is not like being immobilized from pain. It remind us what they mean to us and the hole their loss creates in our lives.
My mom is the opposite. The more diseases/illnesses, the more medication to take, the better. She supposedly has stage 4 cirrohis of the liver and takes at least 20 pills plus insulin per day. I can't see how it helps a bad liver. There just aren't words to describe how dumb I think this is.
My dad's family history included heart disease and Alz, there's no way he could've escaped it, like I probably won't either. My dad was a wonderful father and I sitll miss him terribly.( I had to boo-hoo after I posted my comment this morning, just thinking of him.)
Nowadays, there's a pill for everything. But people forget that genes play a major role in your health. They take that magic pill and when they get a disease, then they wonder why that magic pill didn't prevent it. Kinda crazy but that's just my opinion.
I have read Prostate Cancer is really not likely to kill you at such an advanced age, other things would come first. and as he doesn't believe he has it, it is sort of a non-issue so far.
Thank you for responding.