Caroline's Breast Cancer Blog

...it' s a tumor.       The thought of cancer spreading to my brain has been my worst fear...the kind of fear that brings tears to my eyes whenever I think or talk about the possibility.  Before my cancer diagnosis, I took my brain for granted.  Since my diagnosis, I was grateful everyday that my brain was cancer-free.        So now the thing that I feared the most has happened and surprisingly, I'm not freaking out.  I had two MRI studies and an MR spectroscopy .  I nitially, the lesion did not loo k like a classic metastatic tumor.  I sent my images for second and third opinions and now my case has been reviewed by several oncologists, several neuroradiologists , a radiation oncologist and a neurosurgeon at five institutions, in two states.  After some back-and-forth, my oncologist and the experts are all on board with call ing my lesion a metastat ic tumor.      In me eting with t...

     The story I'm writing about today happened a month ago.  For some reason, I have been hesitant to blog about what transpired on February 4th when my husband and I got in our car with the intention of attending a meeting with our U.S. House of Representative, Congressman Peter Roskam, of the Illinois 6th district.  Mr. Roskam was in our town to speak about the Affordable Care Act and we wanted to hear what he had to say and try to let him know why we feel that repealing it without a sound replacement plan could really hurt us, and many people we care about.         This is my husband, Wynn.  He is the father of our two children and a pediatrician.  He has been in private practice for over 30 years and through the 90's and early 2000's, he also volunteered at a clinic that offered free and low cost health care to children that didn't otherwise have access to it.  For over a decade, he served as the clinic's me...