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Counseling
There was zero counseling provided when I was diagnosed, not even for understanding the basics of breast cancer, to help me make sense of any part of it. I have worked in the health care profession and still find it hard to accept that we are all just supposed to go it alone and figure it out the hard way.
If I had my way, there would be a counselor present when you get the diagnosis and when you talk with the surgeon and especially when you talk with the oncologist. The way things are now, the body gets treated but the mind and soul are left behind.
Berta, I brought up some of the sensitive issues related to breast cancer that need counseling (lack of sexuality as a result of treatment, etc., etc.) with both my internist and my onc. Not only did they NOT mention counseling at all, they simply sat and changed the subject. Both of these docs are excellent in their field. I thnk THAT is the basis for the question Jener8er has raised.
AlaskaAngel
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