simplysharron's Cancer Blog

I know that the big C is a money making industry and I also know I chose this course to live to see my child grow up. Although my surgeon actually cried with me when they said I had 6 months. Then it was 5 years, now it is as if they never said those things, the past is the past and I should forget what they tortured me with and go on. But I don’t want to let them off so easily to have their cure rate up. Or their insurance rate down. They care for themselves and we are simply numbers, or cattle to the trough.

Posted on February 12, 2008 at 9:18:43 PM by simplysharron

I am extremely angry and feel I have to do something after the doctors and played with my head so extremely. For example “Tell me if you have any symptoms, because you are a stage 4 and anything could mean something” Next visit, you complain each time about something. My answer was I am just telling you what you told me to.How can I make them listen. They work for me, I am not their 3:30PM patient to get out at 3:35PM

Posted on February 12, 2008 at 9:35:07 PM by simplysharron

I am sorry you have had such a rough time. I have taken chemo twice, once in 1994 and again in 2005. The chemo in 1994 was much, much worse than in 2005. I was 52 and my girls were juniors in high school in 1994. How bad it is mainly depends on what chemo drug you take and how much you take of it. My first 2 treatments in 1994 were high-dose Adriamycin and Cytoxan. I had a blood clot in my right arm and they put me on Coumadin so they had to decrease the amount of the Adriamycin and Cytoxan. I also had to have blood transfusions after each treatment except for the first and the last in 1994. I know cancer is scarey and it is awful but try to hang in there for your daughter’s sake. My thoughts and prayers are with you. Joyce

Posted on February 23, 2008 at 6:28:52 PM by joyce