Tag: breast cancer

Baldness. Puking. Fatigue. These miseries likely come to mind when you think of chemotherapy. At my first oncology consultation in August, I was given a folder full of teaching materials, which I mentally retitled “Welcome to Cancer.” The information inside, however, did not hit with warmth nor welcome. Neither did…

I’ve often wondered how persons who don’t work in health care—or don’t know persons who work in health care—manage to find their way past the gatekeepers, the schedulers, the delays, the unacceptable answers. Especially when stakes and emotions are high. I found one, possibly two, breast masses on Friday evening,…