May 6 Joy

COLOR ME YELLOW



Hi All,
UCLA is amazing. yesterday i had an apt. with Dr. Lee, radiation oncology. He does 6-7 weeks on one breast -- which would have had us here for 3 more months and i knew that was not going to happen. Because the cancer was caught so early he told me of another treatment. Brachytherapy done by Dr. Jeffery Demanes. I am sending a link to his information if you feel like looking up him and this method. Lorin and I met with him yesterday and were impressed with what he had to tell us. The treatment lasts a week and i will be done with this challenge. If i walked away and just been tested every other month there was a 20 % chance the cancer could come back. With this treatment there is a 4% chance.
UCLA is so integrated -- all of my Dr.s get updates whenever there is a visit or change or apt. or tests -- on and on.
We are also seeing (later in the month) Dr. Mary Hardy, who will be teaching us what to expect from the treatments and how to deal with life after cancer. She will educate us on nutrition, life style, etc. There is a 8 page questionnaire to fill out, med history-life style-spiritual background and one that i will be busted for--- exercise.
She is a Integrative Oncology Dr. In fact all my Dr.s are oncology Dr.s
We have not experienced ego stuff - all the Dr.s and workers in the Dept's we have been in are a team for the patient, they confer-email-and choose the best way to go. Dr. Chang has sent me to wonderful Dr.s and i feel i am in the best hands.
So given what i was first told in SLO and that breast cancer can be a killer i am again blessed with what i have. Thank you all for holding me in healing light and love. I am happy you will keep it up. I have felt well taken care of from the beginning.
love Joy


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