I am so overwhelmed once again. This thread epitomizes what I was saying ! Thank you.
I don't feel very courageous - I feel so lucky and blessed. And I met soooo many wonderful, compassionate and witty people that I would never would have never enriched my life otherwise. Many of them patients who made what I went through so small in comparison.
MrsE, please let your aunt know that she needs to put herself first and trust that she will deal it with it in a graceful way. A doctor told me early on, " Don't let it lead you, you lead it. Don't lose your spirit to it. " OK, he said it more eloquently....
San - I wish the same to your aunt.
How lucky we are to get a diagnosis that is not an automatic death sentence anymore.