Straight from the horse's mouth

[nightdog_barks]

OKAY SO.



Kittens, sometimes when it walks like a duck and talks like a duck ... it still ain't a duck. What I actually have is secondary breast cancer. This means that EIGHT YEARS AGO, some teensy-tiny microscopic fragment of my breast cancer hid out somewhere in my body until one day it said HEY THINK I'LL COME OUT AND SAY HI AGAIN. Why? Because that's just the way things work. The human body is a mysterious bundle of magical shit.

Anyway, my doc explained that the first-line treatment these days for secondary breast cancer is ... targeted therapy. A pill. So the next steps are going to be: a PET scan, to see just how much of this there is; a biopsy (from a spot in my liver); pull everything together for a plan of attack; attack.

I like this guy -- he was actually listening to me, and answered my questions honestly. :-)



So that was my Friday. :-)

Comments

[nightdog_barks]

Heh, sounds like a colonoscopy, where they give you Versed. You can respond to the medical staff, but you don't remember a thing.

[blackmare]

OH MAN I WISH I DIDN’T REMEMBER (it wasn’t really that bad). I think they may have given me a touch of ketamine? Or ... actually that is one part that’s pretty hazy. Was it ketamine, or versed, or something else? I recall that I recognized the name, in any case.