Sad story.
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steven_titchenell2006 — 14 years ago(April 29, 2011 12:11 PM)
If she had let the doctors amputate her leg, chances are she would've died 5 years later anyway & would've had to live the last 5 years of her life with only one leg. I'm not a fan of cancer detection tests because I don't see what good it does to know you have a disease that is going to kill you sooner or later. In fact, I would think it would just ruin your remaining time
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WarpedRecord — 14 years ago(September 19, 2011 11:51 PM)
Far be it from me to second-guess the intentions of a cancer patient, but I appreciate the fact that Kate wasn't particularly likable at least not to me. The relationship with Sam was complex and tumultuous, from from the Hallmark Hall of Fame school of weepie dramas. That's what makes this film so much more believable.
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Sethslvr — 14 years ago(October 10, 2011 12:59 PM)
I watched this movie when I was a kid and I loved it. But watching it again on you tubeas a grown woman and a mother, I can't help but think how selfishhas she had the amputation, her daughter would have had a mother.
Ted Kennnedys son had the same cancerhad the amputation and is still alive today.
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Clusium — 14 years ago(October 11, 2011 10:07 PM)
Terry Fox also had the same type of cancer, but, although he went through with the amputation, it did not prevent him from dying. And if you read these threads, you will find some posts from someone who knew Lynn Helton, & said that she was a very good, loving mother, & it was a very difficult decision for her to choose.
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overseer-3 — 10 years ago(February 05, 2016 08:58 PM)
I think people cannot forget this TV movie because it was so different, it showed a unique woman not even out of her teens who made her own decisions for her own reasons. She was very independent plus she lived out in the boonies which made her unique too a city girl probably would have made a different decision.
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wind-dancers — 9 years ago(April 22, 2016 03:56 PM)
Well she is 19, newly married, and its 1965. There is no guarantee that removing the leg would stop the cancer and what surgery, radiation and chemo looked like in the 60's I understand her choice. Unless you have walked a mile in her shoes with cancer in your leg and in pain, I think its best to not have a negative opinion about her choice.