u/bettycockroach

We just got back home from spending time with my son’s cousins and I realized just how different he is. He points with his whole hand to something he wants but won’t isolate his finger, he doesn’t wave, he’s just started speech therapy for a moderate expressive language delay, he only responds to his name 50% of the time, he has just started having mini meltdowns every time we transition from outside to inside or from the kitchen to the living room, he is fixated on tires (every time we go outside he wants to touch the tires on each car), he opens and closes doors multiple times and would rather do that than play with toys.

I’ve tried talking to my husband about this, and my mother, and my mother-in-law, but no one thinks it’s autism but me and my friend who is an EC teacher at an elementary school (and she has only said that some of his behaviors are signs of autism).

I’m completely melting down and can’t handle any of this. To top it all off, I have stage 3 breast cancer and am awaiting the results of a staging MRI after my chemo treatments to plan for surgery.

Please, can you tell me how you cope? How you’ve learned to accept the differences in your autistic child?

Hey everyone. I would love some insight and personal experiences from you if you’ve been in a similar spot.

My cancer is +-+ and is one 1.6 cm lump with some DCIS. I have 2 more infusions of TCHP until my staging MRI and then I’ll talk with my breast surgeon. She seems to be a big fan of a lumpectomy and says there is no difference in survival rates between it and a mastectomy.

I’m mainly concerned about distant recurrence, and I want to try everything I can to reduce the chance of it coming back in another part of my body. They think it might be in an internal mammary node and 7mm of cancer is proven to be in my axillary node.

At first I was leaning toward a mastectomy, but now I lm considering a lumpectomy… I just have no idea what to choose. In the end, distant recurrence is a huge fear of mine and I am willing to do whichever will lower the chance of it coming back in another part of my body, if such a choice exists.

What would you do in my shoes?

Hi guys, I just had the wackiest day and I’m hoping someone who has been through this can give me some insight.

I showed up to my third infusion of TCHP today ready to go. They accessed my port and everything, but my pregnancy test came back faintly positive. I told them it’s not possible for me to be pregnant. They dipped twice, and got the same result, so they sent a blood sample to the lab to confirm. I waited hours for the results. Finally, my oncologist came in and told me the blood results show I’m within the first weeks of pregnancy. Again, I assured him I’m not pregnant. It’s not possible. He said they have to follow a protocol and unfortunately I can’t get treatment today. They scheduled me for Friday to test again and if the numbers haven’t increased then I can stay for treatment.

Has this happened to anyone?! I’ve googled and the answers range from a brain tumor (awesome) or maybe early menopause (I am having hot flashes, and I’m 34).