Grace

Caroline,

About your cough and tender ribs. I a very bad cough last week--caught some type of virus from my sister which manifested itself in a very bad cough. I had to hold my ribs together before every cough it hurt so much. I saw my oncologist last week and he wasn't concerned; I took two of my husband's pills for inflamation and the pain is gone. I still have the herceptin cough--have had it since the beginning, but I know now that the pain in the ribs was not mets or broken ribs because of radiation. Naturally, I thought of the worse before the best. So, it probably is just sore ribs. Perhaps if you have some type of anti-inflamatory medication at home, you might try that to see if there's an improvement.

And, ironically, I have been taking cranberry juice for weeks now, even before this infection, as my cardiologist suggested it for my heart. She also suggested flaxseed, which I had already been taking--lots of it every day, for HER2.