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chelee, I feel for you in your quest to get answers from your onc. my first one told me what treatment I would be doing and when i tried to ask questions he usually wouldn't answer them. or if he did and i didn't understand it and tried asking a different way to see if i'd get a different answer that i could understand he always answered in the same way. he never told me anything positive about the percentages, just how many people die, and that really scared the you know what out of me. i did 2 cycles tac and was very violently ill. i even threw up all over his office and he did nothing to try and keep me from being so sick. it turns out part of that with the second cycle could have been avoided because the nurse didn't give me the premed of aloxi (i think that was what it's called). when i decided enough was enough after the 2 treatments and told him i wanted to quit the treatments he made me feel like i was going to be dying in the very near future. (i'm stage 1, grade 3) I cried for days, until i saw the rad onc and he talked to me more about it all and told me my outlook was very good having caught it so early. i refused to go back to that first onc and my surgeon recommended the one i currently have, who is very great. (the first was in my family doc's network). i was making a notebook of copies of all of my records and tests and when i got the ones from the first onc he had written in my file that i refused to consider any other treatment options. bull! i was never offered any! i didn't even realize till i first saw my current onc that there were other options. with him i did 6 cycles cmf. and should be getting ready to finish my one year of herceptin. so hang in there. i have my fingers crossed for you that you will be as lucky in finding someone who cares for you as much as my onc does now.
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