Thank you Zina – much appreciated! I have spent much of the day in tears, and am fighting off despair, but tonight I am trying hard to be strong and positive for my husband, because I sense he has yet to fully internalize how dire this is.
I expect we will get lots of information tomorrow, but one thing I am wondering if anyone has come across before — I found this while researching ‘neoadjuvant’ (I didn’t understand the word):
“Unfortunately, not everyone is suitable for therapy in this way because it can be extremely toxic. Some patients react so severely that further treatments, especially surgery, are precluded because the patient is rendered unfit for anesthetic.”
This has me quite concerned…I see others on the forum asked to have the surgery right away and I am wondering if we should be exploring that instead. Also, the “extremely toxic” description has me a bit terrified about what this will do to my husband ie is the treatment worse than letting things just..
Perhaps I am leaping to conclusions and should just wait till we have the recommendation from Juravinski…but this is, naturally I suppose, consuming me.
