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cosmogal_7's discussions
I am confused what's happening
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted November 16, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 14 replies
- My mom is now at home and is recieving hospice care. In the last couple of months, (bear with me) her cancer spread to her brain (did WBR) and then found the cancer in her back (did radiation on the two ...
MarieT
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted October 27, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 8 replies
- I did a search for Marie Tyrrell and came up that Marie had passed away on August 19, 2009 in Killingsworth, CT. Marie was born on August 17, 1946 just 2 days after her birthday. I wasn't sure if it was ...
Anyone living with or survived brain mets? I need help!
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted October 11, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 10 replies
- My mom was diagnosed with 3 brain mets recently and has started whole brain radiation. Everyone around me seems to have written this as her final chapter and I want to have hope. I have read some great ...
Need advice or experiences dealing with Brain mets
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted October 6, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 6 replies
- My mom has brain mets and still not sure how many or how bad but can you please help me reguarding treatment you or someone you love has had? I would like to know what the best thing for my mom to do ...
Update on my mom
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted October 5, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 12 replies
- Well we spent all day in the ER. They did a head CT and found out that she indeed did have mets to the brain. She also has some swelling as well. They are admitting her as I write this. She will be given ...
Okay everyone I need some advice fast!!!
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted October 4, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 20 replies
- My mom is acting really weird. She has suddenly stopped taking her Tarceva ( I made her today) and all her meds. Says she is not in pain either now. She is not taking her pains meds at all either. She ...
Question for my mom, please read
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted September 13, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 13 replies
- My mom has been having alot of back pain, especially lower back and buttocks. She is on Tarceva and has had an MRI and xrays. Nothing has shown on them at all. She has been going through physical therepy ...
Meet my mom
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted August 18, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 7 replies
- My mom has joined the group. She is just getting started on here and doesn't really have alot on her profile just yet. She just started on Tarceva and has alot of questions about that. She has done Gemzar ...
Question for all of you
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted July 28, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 2 replies
- Does anyone here have a myspace, facebook, caringbridge account they would like to share? I am on facebook with Lung Cancer Alliance as a friend. I just thought it would be nice to communicate this way ...
Kenny Rankin, Singer/songwriter dies of lung cancer
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted June 9, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 2 replies
- LOS ANGELES – Kenny Rankin, a brilliant pop vocalist and highly regarded musician-songwriter whose stylings ranged from jazz to pop to the world music influences he picked up as a child in New York, has ...
Has anyone had something show on a CT and not be cancerous? I am confused!
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted May 7, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 21 replies
- Hello, My mom got the results of her CT today and she called to tell me they found a spot on her liver and another on her back. However they said the one on her liver could be a result of a medication ...
I am so frustrated!
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted April 13, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 11 replies
- My mom was just in the hospital and she was very sick. She had an infection, no white blood cells and was very anemic. Her platelet count was dangerously low. For 3 days we had to mask and glove up to ...
Advice on radiation on lung
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted March 15, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 4 replies
- My mom was offered radiation on her lung but turned it down while she was on Alimta and while she was on Alimta the tumor had slightly grown. Now she is on Gezmar. Alimta gave her radiation recall and ...
My mom's scan results
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted March 5, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 14 replies
- Well today my mom got the results of her pet scan results and well it shows the tumor in her lung has grown just a wee bit. Her leg (this is the only met) is still the same as before which was good. There ...
My mom is getting a PET scan in the morning
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted March 1, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 23 replies
- I am very worried about tomorrow. I feel like I can either be crushed or estatic but for how long. My mom said to me that she is at peace with whatever the case may be. I am just wanting some kind of ...
This is interesting!~
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted February 6, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 14 replies
- I was watching ER last night and there was a woman who was diagnosed with lung cancer that had spread to the brain, liver and bones. Later though they learned that she did not have lung cancer after all ...
Clubbed fingers
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted January 19, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 31 replies
- I have heard on here about clubbed fingers being an early signal of lung cancer. Do you know how true it is? Have any of you that have been diagnose have this condition? I was over seeing my mom today ...
Question regarding Alimta and a rash
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted January 19, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 10 replies
- My mom is on Alimta and has developed a rash on her leg where she has cancer. She says it hurts, like its in the muscle. I saw the rash and its like little bumps but not really reddish or if it was its ...
Question for you regarding my mom
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted January 9, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 9 replies
- My mom is experiencing numbness in her hands and feet. She is concerned and doesn't know if this is a result of treatment or not. She had mentioned the numbess in her fingers to her doctor and he told ...
Hair loss question
- By cosmogal_7 · Posted January 2, 2009
- In Lung Cancer Alliance Survivors · 20 replies
- My mom has lost her hair. I know she misses it terribly. She did a round of chemo and she just started on Almita. Now does your hair stay gone or does it at one point start growing back even during treatment ...