trying to help my mother

[daughter]

Thanks for your kind words. When I got Joe's response I was so excited my brain felt like on fire. I do hope I can get somewhere with those leads. I am scared that her doctors don't get offended if I bring the information. They can be good people but sometime you have to deal with their egos, like their job is not to help the patients first. My cousin talked to a doctor in a different hospital just to hear second opinion and he seemed annoyed and said how people read all kind of things, and how pharmaceutical companies spend a lot of money on their ads and they are not always good, and than patients come and argue with the doctors about their treatment. It made me so mad!!
I don't want to be the one to decide on her treatment I am not a doctor but
if there are better things available I would like someone to tell me about it
and tell me what is the right thing to do. I read about taxans and they seem
to help too. I am not sure what side effects are, as I am scared my mom will
give up if it ends up like last year. Maybe I can figure out if she can get
herceptin or tykerb after this therapy ends. It really is scary and I am
thankful that I can talk to someone while she can't.
Thanks again
Nina