I know you're (mostly) not doctors, but . . .

dmd77
Fri, 10 Dec 2010 13:47:28 +0000

Donna, I don’t know what happened between you and your doctor, but I had a very rare cancer (chondrosarcoma, 800 cases/year in the whole US), and I have found that I need to be extremely aware of research and followup–because I know more than my doctor. She simply doesn’t have the time or resources to learn about EVERYTHING.

There’s an old saying in science: if you hear hoofbeats, it’s probably not a zebra. My cancer and your surgery are both zebras, however, and that means we need to make doctors aware that those hoofbeats they hear might not be horses…

So glad to hear that it’s NOT cancer. I was worried.