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Re: Bone Marrow transplant recommended for mom's breast cancer - very scared !
From: Lauer (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Tue, 30 Sep 1997 11:13:14 -0400
Sherry,
I wish I had some information to help ease your mind. All I can offer
are my thoughts and prayers.
Love,
Tammie Lauer
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>From: anonymous@obgyn.net:anonymous@obgyn.net
>Reply To: womens-health@obgyn.net
>Sent: Monday, September 29, 1997 6:27 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list
>Subject: Bone Marrow transplant recommended for mom's breast cancer - very
>scared !
>
>My mom's doctor said her breast cancer was advanced and recommended a
>study at Vanderbilt University using bone marrow transplant as a
>treatment as well as very very high doses of chemo. I talked to the
>nurse in Huntsville where she lives and had the mastectomomy (sp?) and
>she said "this was a last .. best effort to save her life that her case
>was to advanced for them to handle it". They feel it is almost certain
>in her case that it will reoccur somewhere else since so many of the
>lymph nodes were positive (level 3). I am so so scared ! Is there any
>information for me to read on this type of treatment ? Are there any
>survivors of this treatment ? My mom is feeling like a guinie pig (sp?)
>and like she is living in the dark ages of the old "bleeding of
>patients" because they didn't know what else to do.... she is in the
>stage of "what is the point if its just gonna come back anyway".... I
>really want to be strong for her... but I feel like I am falling apart.
>I live in Nashville where Vanderbilt is and Dr. Hande is in charge of
>the study - we meet with the transplant team as well as the Dr. Hande
>again to talk more and see what the game plan is this Thursday ....
>
>I gotta keep the faith but I feel like me and my husband are the only
>ones that know she can kick this thang in the ass and bite it back ...
>my mom already lost my brother to a bike accident when he was 33(7 years
>ago - I mentioned this in an earlier memo) so it seems as if my family
>can't get a break !!
>
>Please help ... advise ... I feel as if I losin' it and we haven't
>even begun the fight.
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