by XvGojira » Tue Oct 01, 2013 4:18 pm
My gal had her last scheduled chemo treatment yesterday and found out some good news and bad news. Good news is she has a genetic dispostion to take chemo really well. Bad news is that same genetic disposition also makes her extremely susceptible to breast cancer as well, like there's an 80% chance she'll get it in her lifetime. Her mother survived breast cancer years ago, so she already was suspcious of that idea. They're already talking about a mammectomy/mastectomy. And I joke that the worst part is she's thinking of going from her D's to implants of C's (The horror!). Got try to find the humor in life, right?
They also told her that she should try to go back to work, but they have her planned for a hysterectomy/de-massing of the cancerous areas in November. So she had to go under the knife as soon as she probably would have gotten her strength up to go back to retail job.
And last week she went to her GP, the same idoit that kept dragging on with the "It's a virus" line. He repremanded her for loosing so much weight in such a short time. Stage 4 ovarian cance and heavy chemo treatments tend to do that to a person, if I know that some one running a practice should too. I told her to ask her cancer doc for recomendations for GPs.