Been There
Two things....
1. Regarding the Big Name university hospitals.......Big Name does not always equate with attentive patient care. Given a physician whose primary focus is "research"....on a particular treatment or drug that may or may not work out positively........or given a medical oncologist in his/her own private practice and doing his own patient care directly, I'd prefer the private practitioner. Your survival, not a study/experiment, should be first priority, and any board certified specialist can refer you to the big name places if all standard protocol therapies have failed. Big does not always mean better care.
2. one of the biggest reasons TV is a good place to be in your situation is that neighbors and acquaintances have TIME....time to spend encouraging you and buoying you up when you're down.......time to go with you if you need a friend to take you to appointments and go out for coffee or any little activity to take your mind off that awful topic.....time to just be a friend or set of listening ears. "Back home" where most people are still working and raising kids in a rough economy, people seem to busy with their own lives. And there are LOTS of survivors here who understand what you are going thru.
Come on Down!!!!
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