Brenda -- I really want to do some interviews with the Her2 group in San Antonio. Can you e-mail me on my business email at
kathyl@curetoday.com and we can set up times to meet, etc. I have some interviews already set up with the Alamo Breast Cancer Coalition, which is the group that has been bringing in an advocacy group every year.
This San Antonio meeting is so special to me. When my book
The Breast Cancer Companion came out in 1993, I drove down to the meeting with three friends -- all survivors -- and we attended the meeting (very small then, around 400 docs). I had a table and promoted the book and on Saturday we went to the luncheon where all the doctors presented case studies before a panel.
Boy did we get some looks. It was like we were the enemy and had invaded their camp. And at one point one of the panelists, who was promoting breast conservation surgery, made this huge statement that no woman wanted to lose her breast. Of course, he is right, but it occurred to me that he was speaking for me -- when I remembered telling the surgeon to take it off on the floor with a butter knife because I wanted to be here to raise my daughter. It was an "a-ha" moment for me that doctors didn't know what I thought or felt and I needed to tell them. It was really the moment I became an advocate.
So let me know your schedule and who is the reader of the group. I have read about her and really want to meet her.
Kathy