Chemotherapy Persuasive Speech

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Sad news came out today from the country music duo Joey + Rory. Joey Feek has been battling cancer for a while now and things have looked up and then back down. Taste of Country shared today that they are now stopping treatments and have gone home to just live life. This is Joey's second battle with cancer and she recently had surgery and also went through chemotherapy, but Joey + Rory didn't get the news they had hoped for from the doctors. Rory went to their blog This Life I Live today to share that they have found out there is nothing more the medicine can do for Joey. Rory revealed that sometimes there is not enough chemotherapy or doctors or surgeries. Joey Feek was now sent home, but Rory insists Joey went home to live not to die. Joey had plans to start her new round of chemotherapy on Thursday, but after meeting with the doctors they went home instead. Rory revealed what the doctors …show more content…

And that many more smaller tumors were visible all throughout the abdominal region. She said that the cancer was aggressively spreading in spite of all they’ve been doing. Basically the statistics told Joey that she could do more chemo, but it would only buy her more time. They made the decision to go back home. Rory Feek shared that there was an estimate of how much time she has left, but they are not sharing that and threw the calendar in the trash. Rory went on to explain how they are dealing right now. Joey has been mostly sleeping these past few days since we’ve been home. Partly I think because of the medicine, but also because I think she’s trying to process what’s happening and even more so, what’s going to happen. I can’t process any of it. I can’t. All I can do right now is think of her and want to make sure she’s taken care of and knows how much she’s loved be me, and by so many

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