After six years of painful injections, Stephanie Walker has had enough.
Every 28 days, she drives an hour to Duke’s Cancer center to get 50 mL slowly injected into her glute muscles. The viscous mixture of castor oil and medicine is painful going in and leaves lumps in its wake.
Then she drives an hour back to her Tarboro home, seat warmers on to soothe the soreness. Walker, who was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer in 2016, has endured so many of these injections, the tissue around her right hip has turned necrotic, she said.
