Author: laddertipper
Posted: Tue Oct 25, 2011 3:30 pm
| rule62 wrote: |
| My wife did some research from the Cancer Institute and it said that this kind of cancer is easily treated by surgery and a little chemo and radiation, so I don’t think I’m in for a bunch of terrible treatments. We have full confidence that I’ll be completely recovered in less than a year.
I am lucky enough to have a specialist who will use a robotic arm for my surgery. That robot has a 70% better chance of getting it all than the human hand. It should also have minimal damage done so I feel blessed. Breezy, what exactly does an Oncologist do? I know they specialize in cancer, but what do they do except prescribe meds? |
I am so happy to hear that!
My grandmother died of pancreatic cancer when I was a kid. Of course, that’s a very difficult cancer to treat, but she did not investigate her options. This was incredibly tough for my mom to deal with. There actually were many options, including some promising ones, but she refused to advocate for herself or let us advocate for her. She took the first doctor’s hopeless prognosis to the bank. Who knows what she may have missed out on and what we missed out on because of this? If you advocate and investigate and are open to alternative treatments than the one you are initially offered, you are giving yourself a great chance to beat this. I recently had a friend with ‘incurable’ breast cancer beat the tar out of it, because she fought hard and she did her homework. She is in remission. I love your outlook, Rule, and I believe you will win, because you are already announcing that you will win.
laddertipper