Re: April 16, 2012 radio program discussion about palliative care
I could not help but think of the many members on our site who chose to take another road ....and have survived over 9 plus years when back then when they were dx. it was a death sentence..Christine our founder for one,
Jackie07, AndiB..Steph,...and the beautiful list goes on.
Every human will face the day when they will have to make a medical life or death decision. No matter how talented, moneyed etc a person may be we are after all only human and fragile. Survival depends on more than dumb luckāto live to see another day, you must correctly navigate a tricky series of choices. End of life decisions are deeply personal and difficult decisions about how you choose to die.
What I have always found amazing is the will to live and survive. Just consider the thousands of men, women & children who survived the concentration camps.
Modern medicine prolongs our lives in ways once thought unimaginable.
The essential question is: "What makes life worth living?
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Stage 1, Grade 1, 3/30/05
Lumpectomy 4/15/05 - 6MM IDC
Node Neg. (Sentinel node)
ER+ 90% / PR-, Her2+++ by FISH
Ki-67 40%
Arimidex 5/05
Radiation 32 trt, 5/30/05
Oncotype DX test 4/17/06, 31% high risk
TOPO 11 neg. 4/06
Stopped Arimidex 5/06
TCH 5/06, 6 treatments
Herceptin 5/06 - for 1 yr.
9/06 Completed chemo
Started Femara Sept. 2006
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