Choices
The most important thing about making choices at any stage of dealing with bc is to have all the information to make the right decision for YOU.
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Honestly I'm struggling with this- from everyone up the chain of practitioners through friends.
I'm a lucky case - or I consider myself lucky. I could "get away with opting out of chemo".
It's recommended by most of my constantly changing team, but it still "will have about a 2% benefit" for me, which makes the decision harder.
Because while it's only 2%, it's a whole 2%, but it's also about the same amount of chance the chemo will give anyone leukemia, plus the months of hell just to hopefully catch anything my clear lymph tests didn't tell us about.
I don't know what to do, but everyone around me seems to know what's best for me and have a definite opinion. "If it were me" at every turn, but shock factor it isn't them and I know for a fact they have no idea what they'd actually do until it was.
I mean... I just... Is there a medicinal vile of "shut up" you can administer to people... Hahaha.
Thanks for your post Deanne.