 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 1,627 | Jean,
My response is this. Forget worrying about the feelings of anyone.........worry about your brothers life. If someone gets offended by you asking a question, oh well, that will pass. I would rather have my family pissed off at me then get to the point where the doc tells me, "well, if we had done this sooner he would still be alive." Be your brothers voice, the one that can push emotion aside and ask the tough questions. It's the tough questions that will KEEP him alive and give him a fighting chance at beating this disease. Knowledge is power.
Minnie
SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.
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