What Do YOU Want To Do?
I am so tired of being asked that! I do like to be in charge of the decisions that have to be made. I do want to know all about my various test. I do like to know all the options. I just wish it was more clear as to what the best course of action is. In my last visit with my Radiation Oncologist he asked how I was doing on the ADT. I told him my minimal side effects and the ones that bothered me the most. Then I told him that when I ordered the next shot from the pharmacy they told me it was the last one. I was puzzled because it would only be 8 months on that and he told me in the beginning that I should be on it for 18 months. He then asked if I wanted to quit it. That is what bothers me. No one seems to know what is the best course of action. From the the very first diagnoses the Doctor gave me literature to read. He asked me what I wanted to do. When I asked him about alternatives he seemed a little put off that I was asking him about treatments that where not his specialty (open