Happy un-birthday to Amanda! On February 28, 2014, we went to the Nova Scotia Cancer Centre in Halifax to get the results of a scan. As I wrote in a painful article here a few days later , the doctors told us her ovarian cancer had returned and the prognosis was not good: Ovarian cancer tends to come back. We knew this. But we thought it might come back years later. YEARS later. When ovarian cancer comes back within the first six months after treatment, it's worse. It means that it is not cured, won't be cured, can't be cured. It means it's resistant to the main agent used to fight it, which is platinum. Cancer that returns within the first six months is considered platinum-resistant. Throwing more platinum at it won't work very well, and is toxic to the body anyway. The doctor figures Amanda has another year, maybe two, left to live. That was a pretty awful time. That diagnosis led us to sell our home, leave our friends, and move half-way across the count
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