shut down the firm immediately. Now we have to fight the cancer. It is 3 cm, stage 2, triple negative and an MRI shows that the lymph nodes look clear. She is only 45 and this is devastating.
We live in AZ and are going to MD Anderson Cancer Hospital and a second consult at University of AZ (It is a National Institute of Health Cancer Center) next week.
We are scared and overwhelmed. We will go anywhere in the U.S. to get the best treatment. Would appreciate any advice!!
Hi Hiredgun, I was
diagnosed with breast cancer about a year before my planned retirement date. Since then, I've retired, just about when I originally decided to do so.
Having been through it myself, I can tell you it's normal to be scared and overwhelmed, especially between getting the diagnosis and starting active treatment, when it's still up in the air what treatments will be needed and when anything is going to happen. If there is a support group nearby that you can attend, I strongly suggest you go a few times and see if you find it helpful.The people there "get it", because they've been there too. I go to one almost every week, and it's been a real lifeline. If you, your wife or both are more comfortable online, I can highly recommend breastcancer.org, which my doctor sent me to when I was just diagnosed. Both the
forums and the
informational part of the site are well worth looking at. I actually spend more time there (with a different username) nowadays than here at E-R.org. There's another E-R member who was
diagnosed about a year before I was, and as far as I know she's doing well. She's also active (under a different name) on breastcancer.org.
Last of all, stay away from "Doctor Google". It's hard to separate the Internet wheat from the chaff, especially early in treatment when you just don't know enough yet to tell how much of what you read applies to you, which articles are valid but not applicable, which information was originally good but has since become outdated, and which sites are garbage, or worse, sellers of snake oil and other scamsters.
Best wishes for a successful treatment!