Receiving treatment with radiation and chemotherapy

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Ollie Green has stage IV lung cancer and has been receiving treatment with radiation and chemotherapy. His pain is well controlled. He talked with a nurse and doctor at the cancer center and they told him everyone with cancer gets weak and he would just have to "tough it out". He is concerned about his ability to do his own self-care and live at home. Ollie is living with an incurable illness, stage IV lung cancer and is struggling with fatigue.

Ollie just needs a blood transfusion because chemotherapy causes anemia. Ollie should be evaluated for depression and his emotional response to the weakness. Ollie says he is weak. It would be important to understand if this is throughout his body or if he has more weakness in one arm, leg or one side of the body compared to the other. Ollie is not likely to be thinking about Medical Aid in Dying because his pain is under good control.

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