The chosen path
What a roller coaster the last few months have been. As you know, the public hospital chemo treatment plan was very intense and long. After seeing the public hospital treatment rooms, we decided to have it in a private hospital. We assumed the treatment plan will be very similar with the surroundings being more comfortable (I can come with someone, they provide biscuits and tea, less crowded, natural light...). However, the new oncologist was very upfront with us and suggested that because of the surgery outcome and the size of the cancer, the treatment plan should be drastically reduced for 12 weeks total (4 cycles every 3 weeks). What??? Why not the bazooka again? Isn't it the safest for me? I got confused again. For her, since my tumor was small and taken out early and since my lymph nodes were all clear, it was more damaging to undergo the bazooka chemo (called red Devil by the way 😣) and safe enough to follow this shorter chemo. If this will have been proposed in the 1st plac...