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Journals
It's back again.....Help telling my son
- By washinbrig · Posted 1:27 pm
- 0 replies
- Hi was dxed at 29 with stage 3 er, pr, her2neu +++ lobular breast cancer,did chemo and XRT that was 8 years ago. The following year had a hysterectomy and found cancer in ovaries. been on Herceptin from ...
update
- By curlee · Posted 8:46 am
- 1 reply
- hi cancer babes after having had a virus and just being stuck home {which i enjoy but after a while get stir crazy}, john and i got swine flu shots in prep for a cruise. haven't seen my daughter here[sick ...
Radiation is halfway done
- By mom2acat · Posted yesterday at 7:57 pm
- 2 replies
- I've had 7 low dose radiation treatments to my hip joint now; 7 more to go. My IBS started to flare up Sunday, (I have the kind with diarrhea). They have tried to avoid going through the bowel with the ...
Don't know what to do already
- By Dolphinlady · Posted yesterday at 3:44 pm
- 9 replies
- I finished my WBR on 9/9/09. I spent that week and the next two days weaning off the steroids which were awful. I gained 20 pounds on them and was bouncing off the walls. Since them I've steadily decline ...
lymph nodes
- By stuartrose · Posted November 18, 2009
- 10 replies
- I went back last week to my onc for my CT scan and results. It seems I have lit up nodes in the groin and abdomen area. We both decided to keep it monitered, very closely, and try to get into a trial ...
A math puzzle for you all!!
- By gasketman · Posted November 16, 2009
- 12 replies
- You have seven girls sitting in a circle with seven backpacks each. In each backpack you have one big cat and one momma cat with seven kittens. How many legs do you have in this brain teaser?? Good Luck ...
NED with Xeloda
- By dfleaman · Posted November 13, 2009
- 22 replies
- Just wanted to give some of you hope. I have been on Xeloda and Zometa for 11 weeks or 6 cycle of 3300. I have bone and liver mets too many to count. I went Tuesday for my pet scan results thinking the ...
A Lazy Susan for your side table or nightstand
- By JudyV · Posted November 13, 2009
- 18 replies
- I was telling someone about this little wonder, and decided to share it more widely by making a journal entry out of it. I recently recited what I keep on the table by my "seat" in the den, the place ...
Stage 4 Breast Cancer with mets to liver
- By NurseJoan · Posted November 13, 2009
- 12 replies
- I was diagnosed with Metastatic Breast Cancer with mets to the liver in May 2009. I had a mastectomy at the end of May, the liver mets was discovered in June, Chemo started at the end of July. I had another ...
Aloe Arborescens
- By stuartrose · Posted November 12, 2009
- 9 replies
- I am wondering if anyone has heard of this. I have a book by F Romano Zago and it talks about it helping to 'cleanse' the body and help get rid of cancer (?). I want some honest answers. I am not currently ...
Riddles for today
- By gasketman · Posted November 12, 2009
- 9 replies
- Which word in the English language becomes shorter when it is lengthened? You give someone a dollar. You are this person's brother, but the person is not your brother. How can that be? A murderer is condemned ...
Neurontin for pain management/neuropathy
- By gpawelski · Posted November 12, 2009
- 23 replies
- I've written before that anecdotally, drugs like Neurontin are used off-label. Most drugs are prescribed off-label. One must be cautious that off-label remedies are fully discussed with patients and must ...
Started radiation yesterday
- By mom2acat · Posted November 11, 2009
- 4 replies
- Yesterday was day 1 of round 3 of radiation. Saw many of the same familiar faces of the staff that were there the first 2 times, in 2004 and 2007. My appointment was set for 2pm. Then a 25 minute drive ...
Mother
- By LaGata · Posted November 10, 2009
- 19 replies
- My mother passed away ( A euphamism I've learned to deal with.) on October 30th, shortly after midnight. The funeral was on November 3rd. The cancer that caused her death was not breast cancer, it was ...
Designing my Alligator Skin Bag
- By outofthepit · Posted November 10, 2009
- 5 replies
- About three months ago that "meta" - gator sneaked up on me and clamped its jaws around my chest and tried to jerk me from side to side as I underwent surgical procedures and received scan results. Initially ...
Back on the road
- By yesshecan · Posted November 9, 2009
- 6 replies
- There was a moment of complete joy. Running with old friends. Warm sun burns through self consciosness as I re enter the group I left a year ago. People hug and comment. On my hair. On their pleasure ...
Is It Real? Can it be?
- By JudyV · Posted November 8, 2009
- 28 replies
- This strange life I am living now ... is it real? Who could have imagined this. I am 66. All my young years, thinking of my senior years would have put me on a cruise ship, living in a condo in Florida ...
Lost your health insurance? Got Breast Cancer? Read this!
- By Pam-Pam · Posted November 8, 2009
- 20 replies
- This is my story: I had lost my insurance when our business collapsed. We had spent all our savings trying to keep the business afloat. We had assets, our home was paid for, etc, so we didn't qualify ...
Friday Nov.6,09
- By stuartrose · Posted November 6, 2009
- 4 replies
- Just want to say today has been a little better. I have been doing to much thinking 24/7 and I really needed to just STOP for awhile. LOVE my sweet hubby and beautiful boys SO SO much. I am so grateful ...
Week 1 - Done
- By CazzT · Posted November 6, 2009
- 1 reply
- Well I survived my week of radiotherapy. I didn't expect many problems as radiotherapy was the easy part last time and I had many more sessions. At various stages I had severe nausea and diarrhea which ...
