Eric's thoughts

I think the title is referring to the choice of forcing the medicine down her throat or her just doing it herself.. Maybe even having the choice to not do it at all?

In a way it's a choice but in the end it's almost mandatory to be treating her with it because I feel as if there was no other alternative.

Poison meaning it is harmful to the body because it's killing all the cells in general not just cancer cells. & he may have called it that because when you think of poison you think of illness or death.. & going through this with his daughter may

be the closest thing you get to feeling a sense of death without actually physically dying.

I think he should let her do whatever she wishes, at this point in her life.

Have an affect or impact as many other people's lives as I possibly can.

Conditions just like ones in this story are more than a good reason to force discomfort on someone for the better.

It's the simple terms of "put yourself in somebody else's shoes" that makes us emotional over someone else's struggles. While reading this, I imagined I had a daughter that I loved & cared for & I had

to watch her fight off something that has the potential of killing her.. Then thinking if she survived what would be the outcome. Putting myself in his position probably didn't give me hear the real feeling of being Eric; but made me understand why I should be so grateful for life I live.