Lung Cancer Monologue
“Ah...” the doctor calmly replies avoiding eye contact with me and my father. The room then becomes silent for a second before the Doctor looks up at me and replies, “your results have come back...I’m sorry Jason; it seems you have lung cancer”.
“Currently there is nothing we can really do and I’ve discussed your case with specialist in the field and we have predicted that you may not have that long left”. Two words, two words are all it took to destroy my life, lung cancer .My body instantly became numb and my stomach felt as if it had exploded. I stared at the ground my eyes becoming out of focus like the lens on a camera. My hearing seemed to disappear as everything my father and the Doctor were discussing seemed to be blurred and distant. The Doctor put his hand …show more content…
I could feel something down my throat. Beep, as the heart monitor started going off next to me, “You're awake!” yelled my mother, while holding back her tears once again. I turned to see my mother firmly grasping my hand and my dad in the corner of the room looking at me.
‘Where am I?” I tried to ask, but all that was heard was gurgling as there was a tube down my throat that was allowing me to breathe.
“You collapsed in front of us, and the doctors say your cancer has become termi….” before Mum could finish her sentence my doctor and two nurses walked in. “Hey buddy,” the doctor said in a mumble, he then placed a piece of paper with a pen on my bed.
“You don’t have to talk, but we need to know what you want to do from here,” he exclaimed “We don’t know how much longer you have from here, you're on borrowed time right now and we can care for you until the time comes or..” He pauses and looks at my mum who then nods back, “we can offer you euthanasia.”
“It’s really happening,” I thought in my head “I’m really about to die! This is real, it isn’t some strange dragged on dream, it’s really happening. I’m about to
“Currently there is nothing we can really do and I’ve discussed your case with specialist in the field and we have predicted that you may not have that long left”. Two words, two words are all it took to destroy my life, lung cancer .My body instantly became numb and my stomach felt as if it had exploded. I stared at the ground my eyes becoming out of focus like the lens on a camera. My hearing seemed to disappear as everything my father and the Doctor were discussing seemed to be blurred and distant. The Doctor put his hand …show more content…
I could feel something down my throat. Beep, as the heart monitor started going off next to me, “You're awake!” yelled my mother, while holding back her tears once again. I turned to see my mother firmly grasping my hand and my dad in the corner of the room looking at me.
‘Where am I?” I tried to ask, but all that was heard was gurgling as there was a tube down my throat that was allowing me to breathe.
“You collapsed in front of us, and the doctors say your cancer has become termi….” before Mum could finish her sentence my doctor and two nurses walked in. “Hey buddy,” the doctor said in a mumble, he then placed a piece of paper with a pen on my bed.
“You don’t have to talk, but we need to know what you want to do from here,” he exclaimed “We don’t know how much longer you have from here, you're on borrowed time right now and we can care for you until the time comes or..” He pauses and looks at my mum who then nods back, “we can offer you euthanasia.”
“It’s really happening,” I thought in my head “I’m really about to die! This is real, it isn’t some strange dragged on dream, it’s really happening. I’m about to