"So", She Said, "I've Come Down With a Bad Case of Radiation Therapy - I Doubt it's Contagious."
A friend of mine, MotherSuperior, has been diagnosed with cancer.
She had a lump removed from her breast last week and the biopsy came back positive.
She's going in for more surgery next week so that they can check her lymph nodes. Radiation is tentatively scheduled for June.
I find myself in an odd position.
I have NO IDEA whatsoever, what she's going through - yet, I've been here before.
I'm happy to say that the same methods that worked on keeping my Mother focused on what needs to be done and not on her illness works for MS too. When she first called me her voice was weak with apathy and fear -as if she was in her grave already - and by the end of our conversation she had her normal no-nonsense voice back and was starting to actively take action, at least in her mind, for her future.
Apparently my role in life is the Sypathetic Bully. I guess I can live with that.
She had a lump removed from her breast last week and the biopsy came back positive.
She's going in for more surgery next week so that they can check her lymph nodes. Radiation is tentatively scheduled for June.
I find myself in an odd position.
I have NO IDEA whatsoever, what she's going through - yet, I've been here before.
I'm happy to say that the same methods that worked on keeping my Mother focused on what needs to be done and not on her illness works for MS too. When she first called me her voice was weak with apathy and fear -as if she was in her grave already - and by the end of our conversation she had her normal no-nonsense voice back and was starting to actively take action, at least in her mind, for her future.
Apparently my role in life is the Sypathetic Bully. I guess I can live with that.