Should we give up the fight???
My mom (76 years old) was diagnosed with RAEB-II Oct 2013, and went through 18 months Vidaza treatment till this April when Doctor said that the chemo did not work anymore. Early this month, her MDS progressed to AML.
She has extremely low PLT and HGB, and requires platelet transfusion twice a week and RBC transfusion once every two weeks. She has transfusion reactions twice this past month, requiring hospital stays.
She is currently at hospital, and the doctors think that she may never be out of hospital. With the transfusion as the only option to prolong her life, and the fact that she is getting weaker and weaker, should we stop the transfusion and give up the fight? We, including her, want her to live but we do not want her to continue suffer.
Really appreciated to hear others' opinions and past experience on the last days of the MDS/AML patient.
Thanks in advance.
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