I was quite shocked recently to hear that an old classmate's daughter was diagnosed with stage-4 cancer. She's barely 4 years old. It was sadder still hearing from friends about how their marriage had broken up even before the daughter was born, and of how the single mother is attempting to raise so much money all at once for overseas treatment, and that the treatment will only give her a 40% chance of survival.
But according to a doctor friend, apparently stage-4 cancer is a death sentence. There is pretty much no recovery from that stage of cancer. This means that the little girl is just a dead man walking right now. If treatment is effective, then its just a matter of prolonging an already sick life by a matter of years.
Half a mil is a lot of money but I guess it buys the idea of hope, rather than a full cure. Maybe the hope of total recovery is priceless, and worth much more than half a mil, which is really just money if you think about it.
Well whatever the outcome, I hope the mom pulls through fine. The little girl is really cute though.
