Obstacles

The beginning of March I saw an oncologist in Tallahassee. He told me that he really didn't know anything about this type of cancer. He essentialy told me that I would die within 3 months to a year and a half. He told me that there was really no sense in doing any clinical trials, unless I wanted to be a guinea pig because they would do me no good. I was extremely devestated. This was the first oncologist I had dealt with and I seriously thought I was about to die very soon.

It is very sad to me that doctors will talk to patients the way this particular doctor talked to me and my family. I do not mind a doctor being "matter of fact" with me. I do not mind a doctor telling me things that I do not want to hear, if in deed what he is saying is factual. What I do not understand is this doctor admitting he did not know much about this type of cancer and told me I would probably be dead within a year and a half. Very very sad to me!