The Cancer Survivors Network (CSN) is a peer support community for cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, families, and friends! CSN is a safe place to connect with others who share your interests and experiences.

Idk what to do

OMyGenious
OMyGenious CSN Member Posts: 3 Member
edited May 2023 in Breast Cancer #1

hello! I’m new here. According to doctors , I have Stage IV metastatic breast cancer, bones, brain and spine . Treatment I have been on has been working well , which was Enhertu, Zometa, and Faslodex. Recently doctors said cancer now spread to my liver and cancer is no longer HER2+ it’s negative, so treatment needs to change, I’ve been having lower back pain which sometimes makes it hard for me to move around and doctors are saying it because of the progression of the tumors in my lower spine. So they are telling me i need to do radiation. I had planned to go to my spouse’s cousin wedding in New York. They want to do 10 sessions of radiation and I’m stuck between what to do. Because if I start radiation I will it be able to go to the wedding with Him and my daughter. He is a bit frustrated as I am too and wants me to just post pone it until I come back. I do not know what to do . I just feel like I’m missing out on life and my fam. What would you do?

Like 1Care

Comments

  • UsVa2023
    UsVa2023 CSN Member Posts: 5 Member
    #2

    I am so sorry to hear about your diagnosis. I don't know that any of us are able to tell you the right thing to do here. While your treatment is important, we can all certainly understand that you don't want to miss time with family. What do you want to do? Which choice makes you feel most comfortable?

    1Like Care
  • OMyGenious
    OMyGenious CSN Member Posts: 3 Member
    #3

    That’s where I’m stuck. I don’t know what to do. I go back and forth. For one part I would want to get radiation over with. And then I have never been apart from my daughter so there’s that and it make me anxious knowing she will be gone for 4days.

    Like Care
  • OMyGenious
    OMyGenious CSN Member Posts: 3 Member
    #4
    https://csn.cancer.org/discussion/comment/1705793#Comment_1705793

    That’s where I’m stuck. I don’t know what to do. I go back and forth. For one part I would want to get radiation over with. And then I have never been apart from my daughter so there’s that and it make me anxious knowing she will be gone for 4days.

    Like Care
  • jwilke1067
    jwilke1067 CSN Member Posts: 25 Member
    #5
    https://csn.cancer.org/discussion/326554/idk-what-to-do

    Hello, there is always zoom. If you decide to stay for the treatments have someone bring you in the ceremony on zoom, that is the latest way to be there without being there and you can hear the ceremony also.

    1Like Care

Discussion Boards