Comment by agumonkey
6 hours ago
Same thing happens for other disease. Some kind of last honey moon period where your health improves and often followed by a catastrophic relapse.
I'm nobody but it makes me feels there's an economic system issue, the body gradually degrades but has the ability one last time to inject a final wave of change to try restore a proper state but the resources are too short and so the attempt cannot sustain itself.
I wonder if research is happening on this aspect.
I’ve heard this is because a lot of symptoms are not from the disease itself but actually side effects of mounting an aggressive immune system response to the underlying condition. Once your body gives up the fight as a lost cause, you will get a burst of relief and restored function from the lack of immune activity but it happens just before total system collapse.
Oh right, that seems so logical..
My dad died of cancer(s) fifteen years ago. He spent his final month in bed at home, chatting with us and friends, knowing that he’d soon be gone, bed bound but sharp as a tack.
The day before he died, he climbed nimbly out of bed and did a little jig to show how spry he was.
Charming in its own way, although his lack of garments on his lower body (it made life easier as functions became less controlled) added a certain edginess to the event.
Well documented in Acute Radiation Syndrome, and features in the excellent show Chernobyl.