“doc says you gonna die”
LOL! I remember that joke.
All I can say is that my FIL had an old cocker spaniel that had tumors that were cancerous (according to the vet) and cataracts that you could clearly see. The dog was bitten over the eye by a rattlesnake and nearly died. I remember seeing her laying on the floor in a pool of drool, covered in foam and panting. I though for sure she was going to die but my FIL said to let her be. I’ll be damned if she did not recover completely two days later. Within a couple of weeks her cataracts went away and the tumors on her side disappeared shortly after. She lived another 6 years before the coyotes got her one evening.
I haven’t seen anybody who got out of here alive yet.