Point of diagnosis
Out of all of the most fantastic care, support and help I've been given over the last 9 months I still find my experience at being told I have cancer bugs me a lot. I had my core biopsy on the Wednesd...
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The surgeon who took my lump out, after a vigorous and protracted argument about whether it was necessary ('You will end up a scar, it will not be cancer') told me. The 5:00 pm appointment time was a dead give away anyway. Large invasive lobular tumour. I sacked him twenty minutes later when he flatly refused to do a double mastectomy as "I will not remove a healthy breast." Idiot.
Off to the GP who brightly says "Good news then!" I was gob smacked--'You think cancer is good news?" He got all huffy and tells me "You don't have cancer". "Yes I do" "No you don't" "Read the fucking report!" "Oh, sorry. I misinterpreted that"
By this stage I'm convinced that if the cancer didn't kill me, it would be no thanks to these imbeciles. And so it has gone on. I'm now blessed with a decent GP who adopted me when I kicked up a stink about the others I'd seen in that practice and I have some confidence in the current oncologist, but it has taken over a decade, 2 cancer episodes and countless 'specialists' to get to this point.