Saturday, November 15, 2008

The road not travelled

The diagnosis was on Friday. The following Tuesday we were to travel to New Orleans for a 6 days for a conference. Then we had 5 days at home followed by a 7 week trip to New Zealand for business. Needless to say we wanted to know if my treatment could be postponed until after all our travel. Unravelling those plans would take a lot of work by many people as they were both business trips, and cost everyone time and money for prebooked flights and accomodation.

The oncologist was shocked that we asked if we could put chemotherapy off for a couple of months. He wanted me in chemo by the next week. He told us I would not be in any shape to enjoy the New Zealand trip by that time.

We said that we would think about it over the weekend and let him know by Monday.

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