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I am trying to think what I would want if I was HER. I know, even at this very early stage that I am in, that people sometimes don't know what to say so I try to put them at ease by initiating "normal" conversations because I want to forget cancer for awhile. I want to talk about everday things. (I just got this insight by becoming a cancer patient myself. I used to be uncomfortable visiting someone who was terminallly ill.)
Conversely, it usually comes up naturally during the course of conversation when it is not forced.
It is "the elephant in the living room" that no one knows how to address sometimes.....but I would take my cues from her.....
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Bonnie
Post menopause
May 2007 Core biopsy, Rt breast
ER+, Pr-, HER2 +++, Grade 3
Ki-67: 90%
"suspicious area" left breast
Bilateral mastectomy, (NED on left) May 2007
Sentinel Node Neg
Stage 1, DCIS with microinvasion, 3 mm, mostly removed during the biopsy....
Femara (discontinued 7/07) Resumed 10/07
OncoType score 36 (July 07)
Began THC 7/26/07 (d/c taxol and carboplatin 10/07)
Began Herceptin alone 10/07
Finished Herceptin July /08
D/C Femara 4/10 (joint pain/trigger thumb!)
5/10 mistakenly dx with lung cancer. Middle rt lobe removed!
Aromasin started 5/10
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