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I've posted before on this topic but now everything I suspected is confirmed: Cancer patients get up to speed! (esp. if you live in Canada)
Everytime we go to a Doctors appointment, doesn't really matter who it is, (I go to all of Linda's appointments with her), we get the same reaction. The conversation goes something like this:
"Wow, you look great, how do you feel? Any recent lumps or bumps? No eh? So...how LONG has it been? 18 months since the mets?"
By this time we are both starting to feel special.
'I know you guys are disappointed in the last scan results but..... well it HAS been well over a year!"
Now Linda is starting to wonder why she hasn't died yet.
"Well, you know that you were very very ill!"
Now I'm starting to wonder why she hasn't died yet.
"well, let's keep doing what we're doing and I'll see you in a few weeks"
Please don't misinterpret this dialogue as I'm NOT knocking our doctors...quite the contrary; they have accepted us 100% as partners in Linda's medical recovery. Dr. Webster for Washington said to me that the first goal of U.S. medicine is to achieve remission and then the second goal is to keep the patient in remission. The first goal in Canadian Cancer treatment is to achieve "stable disease".
Linda had her 6 month appointment with her surgeon today; the one who performed the lumpectomy and put in her port. He also considers Linda as the local shining light of cancer survivors: 18 months with liver mets????
He put it quite in black and white terms: the only reason Linda is doing so well is because we are scrappers, fighters, vocal and always are persuing the other options.
My thoughts: if you don't keep looking at other options....you won't have any!
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