I have since noticed that doctors always talk about “we” when they really mean “you.” After all, you’re the one who is facing death. Hormone treatment could probably help, if only “we had enough time to try it.” Later I learned you need about six to eight weeks for it to ‘catch on.’ I have an ER+, half PR+ and HER2- breastcancer (Luminal B subtype). My sister offered part of her liver for a transplant, but that was not an option. He told me my liver was full of cancer it was one-and-a-half times as big as it should be. I figured I had some weeks left, but not many. When I asked the oncologist how much time I had, he didn’t dare answer me but his eyes and body language said enough. From one day to the next, I had become a cancer patient with maybe a few weeks to live.Īt my first diagnosis, my cancer had already permeated my liver so badly that my liver was failing. I was 42 years old, vegetarian, worked out, consumed very little alcohol, and have never smoked. As if a terrorist is discovered – not in your hometown, but in your body – transforming your own cells into a growing frenzy.įor those of us living with metastatic breast cancer, the words “you’ve got cancer” were followed by “we’re sorry but you cannot be cured.” When my oncologist told me this over two years ago, I had no idea I would still be here today. But what makes it particularly hard to understand is the fact that it is a deformation of our own DNA which turns our own cells against us. Of course, cancer comes in many forms and guises. We’re all at a loss for words when a good friend or loved one is diagnosed with an illness, especially one as elusive as cancer.
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