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This morning myself and my friend Trude did an interview on herceptin here in Vancouver, Canada for French TV.
Trude has locally advanced bc. She has agreed to be followed around for three days by a camera man and be "wired up" for sound. They are doing a feature presentation on Herceptin and how it affects women with HER2 breast cancer. She is one of the first people to have benefitted from being given Herceptin in our province under the new provincial funding. They went with her right into the chemo ward and filmed her receiving her first dose!!!!
Trude & the camera crew came to my place and we had a "walk & talk" about herceptin and HER2. I made sure that I mentioned this website a couple of times as an excellent source of information and support. I don't know if that information will be published because of course our conversation will be edited and our conversation (which took place in English) will be voice-overed in French.
I met Trude in a sort of seredipdous fashion. I had just finished chemo and was looking at all my left-over expensive medication. I had been able to afford top-of-the-line medications, some of which were not covered through the Canadian public Pharmacare Plan because I have a platinum health care plan. But I knew, from being in the chemo room, that there were many people that couldn't afford to buy it. I thought, what a shame to throw it all away when I knew there were people out there that could use it.
Then I thought....according the 6 times removed rule, I should know someone who knew someone that could use this medication. I needed to find someone who knew someone who had exactly the same kind of cancer as me who was currently in chemo right now. (There was no way that I could advertise this medication as available in the hospital - I didn't think that it was legal) so I had to hunt by word of mouth. Within 3 days I had found Trude through a friend of a friend. And she was happy to take my stuff to augment her supply. (I was very lucky in as much as I never lost any of my medication through being ill so I had extras)
So let's keep our fingers crossed! We might get a bit of PR!
Regards,
Merridith
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