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To: biotech_bull who wrote (65592)	5/13/2008 6:47:17 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541912

Exactly, there are just way too many variables. You can't put them in neat little boxes... No, but you can discuss the variables. Having boxes, a simple list of weighted factors, provides a framework for discussion. It would have been great to have been able to go through a process of putting weights on factors. Just having a simple checklist of factors would have forced a process where Dad and I would have learned something useful about his prognosis, even if it was vague. With my dad, I finally resorted to telling the doctor that my tentative plan was to fly home, shut down my home, rent an apartment, and buy a car there so that I could take care of my dad for the duration. When that didn't produce a useful response, I tried asking if I should take the six month or one year lease. Doctor brushed me off. So, I ended up deciding to drive across country rather than buying a car. Had too much stuff for my planned year's stay to fly back. But Dad had obviously started the process of dying two weeks later when I had returned. I realize this isn't an exact science, but you'd think that doctors would have realized that and shared with me that it make no sense to buy a car or lease an apartment. I would have been royally pissed had I done so. From the other angle, it would have offered a way to communicate with my father what quality of life he might have, a way for him to express how relatively important the various happiness factors were, although I had a pretty good sense of him, and the difference between curing the disease and mitigating the symptoms to offer quality of remaining life. And it would offer a way get through to that family in Manitoba .