[GailA]

cat food might taste better than that ENSURE they force them to eat or drink. Nasty stuff, my dying mother refused it, we found she would take slim fast at least it was some tasteful nutrition. She did Hospice the doctor found the cancer to late gave her 6 months, might get a few more weeks with chemo, but she would still die, and have that horrid treatment to go through, she said no. It made no since. If she could have been saved it would have been worth a go at.

My DIL just had a mascetomy for a stage 3 cancer and they give her 85% chance of recovery with treatment which begins 10/30.

[Nowhere Man]

My DIL just had a mascetomy for a stage 3 cancer and they give her 85% chance of recovery with treatment which begins 10/30.

I hope your DIL does well, I pray for her recovery. My mother had a mastectomy for Stage III inflammatory breast cancer too. Prior to that, she has chemo, it took a lot of the redness out but didn't shrink it much. Once the wound heals, she will go back on chemo as a precaution. The breast surgeon said that they tested the surrounding areas and they were negative for cancer spreading. That was a huge concern, the tumor was 22.4 pounds. So I've been there too.