I know what you're saying, honu, but I don't like that an entire treatment plan is determined based on the results of a test no one else does that is still new. Only a handful of people are having their treatment plans based on that. It could be great, but it could also be dead wrong. Hence my dislike about this. And I know you meant nothing by it, but saying it may just save her life is very upsetting to me. At this point her life isn't in danger. Is this ideal? No, but of all the types to have, she's been told she has the "best" type and this is just a blip on the road to a long life. Sorry if I'm coming across as picking, as that's not my intent. Like I said before, the anniversary of my grandfather's death is this weekend, so anything about people dying or their lives being in danger is really hitting a still sensitive nerve with me at this point.
SD, I'm sorry I touched a nerve with you. I didn't mean to. I just have a lot of friends who have metastasized cancer that originally started out as just good old fashioned breast cancer, was taken out, and recurred several years down the road. I don't want to see that happen to anyone, especially your mom, so it's a bit of a touchy subject with me as well. But I hope you're doing OK and hanging in there.
I think it's low. One comment can stick with a child for years, and if it ever gets back to that child, that cannot be pretty. Some children are more "trying" than others, but it's never right to trash a child. Ever.