Rather sad poor girl

[cailin maith]

No I haven't, but I can't imagine it being worse than the surgery she's had.

My cousins wife is having treatment for BC at the moment. It's hideous.

[DodgyAgent]

Apart the horrors of chemo which may not be successful, there's the cumulative effect of checking everyday waiting for it to happen and the stress of all the false alarms until it almost certainly does.

If it was me and my cock with almost certain cancer I would have the old boy off. He's done his job and I'm very fond of him but at least it would stop the old boner at my desk when I'm bored and start thinking about naked women!

What would you do for a toothpick?

[Gibbon]

What would you do for a toothpick?

Same as now, I'd carry using your wife's nipples!

[d000hg]

No I haven't, but I can't imagine it being worse than the surgery she's had.

But you're a total ignoramus. The medical profession does not advise pretty radical surgery as a preventative measure unless there is a very good reason.

[EternalOptimist]

Blooming heck. Poor lady


some things are just so horrible you dont like to think about them

[NickFitz]

No I haven't, but I can't imagine it being worse than the surgery she's had.

If you look around there are many blogs online written by women having chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy for breast cancer. The effects on the body are truly horrendous, and much more severe than those of surgery.

And many of those blogs are no longer updated, as none of the available therapies are guaranteed to result in a cure.

And you'll also find ones which had apparently reached a happy ending several years ago but have had to be re-opened due to the cancer returning. And some of those are no longer updated.

Preemptive surgery seems like a drastic step, but prevention is better than cure.

[mudskipper]

Aye, but sometimes ignorance is bliss.
Would you want to be tested for the gene?

[Zippy]

No I haven't, but I can't imagine it being worse than the surgery she's had.

Are you serious? Getting your tits operated on is worse than dying of liver/brain/lung cancer? Having chemotherapy (many, many side effects including - potentially - osteoporosis) is a walk in the park?

You, sir, are a f***wit.

[shaunbhoy]

You, sir, are a f***wit.

Come on Zippy, stop sitting on the fence and tell us what you really think!!

[Platypus]

F..k that's horrible. Poor woman. What a terrible decision to have to make.

Can someone please post some cheery news?