Getting a second medical opinion is just smart living. Especially in the case of cancer. Every medical system has their own protocol, states have their own protocols, different doctors do different things based on their knowledge and experience. If you turned it over to god you wouldn't have bothered with a second opinion since it was out of your hands.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. A new kind, they said, very aggressive, they said. After a bi-lateral mastectomy the medicinal oncologist at Baylor wanted to start chemo right away...like right now. A very intense kind of chemo. I needed to think about it and do some reading. Then my plastic surgeon's office manager put me in touch with a different doctor in a different medical environment. No chemo, no radiation, no recurrence.
The first doctor actually told me there was no blood test they could run to check for levels of cancer cells in my system. Other doctor said that of course there is, it's how they tell if chemo is working or not. Interesting. Hospitals about two miles from each other, totally different situation. As it turns out, I was so anemic after the mastectomy that a round of chemo could well have been my only one.
I left the doctors at Baptist and all their god stuff to go to UT Southwestern and have never regretted that decision for a moment.
I didn't put anything in a god's hands. I made the decision to put my 'faith' in a doctor who didn't lie to me from the jump.
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. A new kind, they said, very aggressive, they said. After a bi-lateral mastectomy the medicinal oncologist at Baylor wanted to start chemo right away...like right now. A very intense kind of chemo. I needed to think about it and do some reading. Then my plastic surgeon's office manager put me in touch with a different doctor in a different medical environment. No chemo, no radiation, no recurrence.
The first doctor actually told me there was no blood test they could run to check for levels of cancer cells in my system. Other doctor said that of course there is, it's how they tell if chemo is working or not. Interesting. Hospitals about two miles from each other, totally different situation. As it turns out, I was so anemic after the mastectomy that a round of chemo could well have been my only one.
I left the doctors at Baptist and all their god stuff to go to UT Southwestern and have never regretted that decision for a moment.
I didn't put anything in a god's hands. I made the decision to put my 'faith' in a doctor who didn't lie to me from the jump.
I'm your huckleberry.
