What's if it's just liver damage?
I'm starting this blog at an early stage in our journey, but not at the beginning. My wife wants her personal information kept private, so I'm blogging this anonymously. My hope is that others supporting a partner with cancer will find some insight or peace in reading this blog -- even if it is just confirmation that somebody else shares their feelings. While I intend to make a post filling in how we got here, here is the current state of things: - Stage 1 breast cancer, HER2 negative, estrogen and progesterone positive 2 years ago - Lump under the arm a month ago, biopsied and positive for metastatic breast cancer, this time HER2 negative, progesterone negative, estrogen positive. - PET scan shows no liver involvement. - MRI of the breasts happens to spot the liver, which has "innumerable lesions suspicious for metastases". - Follow-up MRI, just of the liver, definitive for cancer. - Oncologist says it is liver cancer. Yet my wife still turns to me, many times a da...