Things are getting more and more difficult
Yesterday, I met the doctor for my wife's pneumonia. He said that he had no idea what the kind of pneumonia was. X-ray result did not get better nor worse. Medicine he gave to my wife simply did not work. This means I have no cure for her pneumonia. At first, doctors at the hospital could not find what the cause of the disease was. Biopsy and other painful tests showed that it was not tuberculosis nor cancer transmitted from the brain cancer. But they simply did not know what it was. The final conjecture they made was pneumonia from the use of anti-cancer medicine, Temodar. And they prescribed drugs based on the assumption. Now, they are not even sure about that. My wife coughs all night long, barely sleeps and is exhausted during the day. When I had her get the brain surgery and subsequent radioactive and chemotherapy, I thought all I had to fight was brain cancer. Now I realize I was wrong. Western medicine feels like modern warfare. You pour shells and missiles to an