Difficult Decisions and Cancer
For those following this blog, you know that Sheila has been in treatment for her second bout with breast cancer. Additionally, this time around, the cancer had spread to her lymphatic system too. She has been through successful surgery to remove the cancer (well... this was actually her third cancer surgery), aggressive radiation therapy and, at this point, 13 months of ten years of drug therapy targeting her specific form of cancer in order to minimize the chance of recurrence. More importantly, as many of you already know, Sheila has been having a very difficult time with the first 13 months of this drug therapy... although I suspect few know just how much this long-term treatment has affected her quality of life. Sheila's problems with this drug treatment have been so difficult and so severe that she has been to the ER. Even the ER doctors were visibly concerned and a bit shaken because the initial thoughts were that perhaps her cancer had spread to her brain. I k