I totally agree with you, traveler, and I stay away from the word ‘cure’ myself.
The inevitability of our own demise is something we all live with and freely banter about……until that inevitability is right before us and we know that “this is it”.
I’m not there yet (at least I hope not), but you are -and I know it cannot be easy. After all your years of treatment you probably hoped for a better result but those treatments DID get you to 81 years. We can never be sure about such things, but would you have done anything differently? Would you not have endured the gauntlet and left this earth years ago - maybe not seeing your children grow up or your grandchildren being born?
If you are in a good place in your head right now and have gotten the satisfaction you desired out of life, your choice to forego chemo is totally understandable.
Honestly, I cringe at the Pluvicto ads which triumphantly proclaim this magnificent increase in survival rates. But When I see this increase is only for FOUR MONTHS I have to scratch my head!
I know many have used it - some with better results than others - but I wonder if all the side effects justify a lousy 4 months of diminished existence… I guess you’ve decided that it does not…Peace