Cancer and not doing treatment, thoughts?
I found out this week that I have stage 2b ovarian cancer. Despite all the existential stuff that comes along with it, I won't do the chemo route for life quality reasons and just let it run its course.
Survivability is not great for it any which way and doing treatment would ruin pretty much any of the plans I had for the future, however tenuous.
This is the wildest forum to put it out there because I know most of you will be wildly pro intervention but hear me out: I don't want to constantly be in the cycle of having my life in a holding pattern, so this way ensures some clarity and closure. I've been there with family and it sucks.
I also would like to battle it as privately as possible - I have a lot of people in my life who also have cancer or are recovering from it or are looking after people with it. I don't want to place extra burden on them, so I want to know about the independent support I can seek in this area aside from my therapist who I see regularly anyway.
I'm not looking for an argument to do otherwise, but I want to hear from anyone who knows of people who have approached this similarly so I have an idea of how to talk to my oncologist about it. I have my legal affairs in order, so can attest to that at least.