Doctors make educated guesses about how long a person has left to live after a terminal diagnosis, but no one should take a healthcare provider's estimate of how many weeks or months someone has left to live as gospel truth. Patients routinely survive long after the day they're expected to succumb to their illness.
My husband, J.J. Hanson, was one such person. A Marine Corps veteran who saw combat in Iraq, J.J. was diagnosed with stage 4 glioblastoma multiforme, one of the deadliest and most aggressive types of brain cancer, when he was only 33 years old.
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