It was very sad to watch especially the last minutes. I did miss the first 1/2 hour though so don't know much about what was discussed early on. I do feel sorry for her and what she has gone through already and for those who will lose her soon.
But what gets me is the thousands of people who watched would never sit through those little 30 minute "commercials" for Jimmy Fund or the group that Marlo Thomas is head of. The ones with the people we don't know who have cancer. I know I have a very hard time watching the little children getting their chemo and the suffering they go through. Unfortunately we are a society who feeds off the "celebrity" no matter what they do.
I fought the battle and am almost at my 5 year mark, but it was a tough year with a week hospitalization after every chemo, and open wounds for 6 months with nurses coming to my house 3 times a day for treatments. Luckily my insurance paid for it but I remember sitting in the "chemo room" with 16 other people some who did not have insurance. I remember those people worrying about who would pay their mortgage and rent because they were using their money to pay for their chemo.
What I don't understand is when people refuse treatments that would lengthen or perhaps cure the disease. Suzanne Somers made a big thing about how she refused the normal treatments and did homeopathic stuff to get rid of her breast cancer. I find it hard to believe after what I went through that eating differently would have removed the demon from my body. I sometimes wonder what else she used that we didn't hear about. But she does deserve privacy and I am glad to see another person did become cancer free.
I also have a hard time seeing people who travel to other countries to get optional treatments that are not proven effective. Again, I don't know the story behind Farrah going to Germany because I didn't see that part. But after seeing some who could not afford treatment here in the US it was hard to see someone spending the money she spent to get unproven treatments.
From what I understand about Germany,
she was told, she still had terminal cancer.
But they would do a treatment and surgery that would pro-long her life.
One Dr. did a surgery, that no one in the United States had done.
He removed the tumor once again from her .
Then they did chemo, with needle insurance right on the tumors in her liver.
She had 6 spots, and she did one at a time.
She flew back to Germany for each one.
After the last one, they had a birthday party for her and she was feeling really good.
But within a couple of months, she did another Pet Scan and something else, and they found the tumor once again returned and they saw swelling in her liver, or they didn't know if the tumors returned. They said her UCLA Dr's and her Germany Dr's worked very close together.
After they found these tumors and spots again, she did an experimental chemo treatment, which didn't work, and then she did the chemo where her hair fell out.
The last part had Redmond coming out of jail to spend time with her. I imagine this was just the last week or two. I also heard this past week, they flew her dad in, so it really must be near the end.
