Why I Started This Blog

I have decided to try and recall some of the entries I wrote in my head.

One, is why did I decide to do this.

When I started this journey, I knew as little about cancer and it's treatment as most people. And I found people had questions, but were afraid to ask. One girlfriend asked if I thought my cancer came back last spring because I had a lumpectomy instead of a mastectomy. She was very hesitant to ask, but wondered what she would do if it was her decision. I told her that given the size of the tumour, and the involvement of the lymph nodes, a mastectomy would have make little or no difference. And my opinion had changed as a couple of years ago, I was astounded that a woman I knew chose a lumpectomy over a mastectomy.

This blog, and my openness gave her somewhere to ask. I don't claim to have all (or many answers), I hope that this gives people somewhere to start with their questions.

Also, we watch those around us go through things, and we don't know what to do. We don't want to ask questions, or to intrude or appear nosy. But hopefully by writing, more of us will be able to talk to our friends about what they are going through, and listen to them. And maybe like me, their friend's questions will open doors for them.

Also, I got tiring, telling the same story over and over again. And remembering who I had told, or who I had sent an email to got more difficult with the effects of chemo brain ( the mental fog that affects chemo patients).

~Inez