Chemotherapy sessions could go up to eleven hours. “My insides seem to be on fire.” She remembered, “I feel hot.”
In order to give chemotherapy straight to her liver, physicians once inserted an infusion pump in her abdomen. “Low energy” and “vaguely nauseous” became her norm, and the effects persisted.
Comer persisted however, motivated by her family’s affection. “The influence of having kids.” My child was eight years old. She said, “I didn’t have permission to go.”
At age 55, Comer stopped receiving chemotherapy and was given only palliative care.
The decision was not tough. I was unable to recover because there were no effective therapeutic alternatives and the chemotherapy was making me sicker,” she claimed.
She continued, remembering a discussion she had with her hospice nurse, “Do I fight really hard or do I just give in?”
