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Journals
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 ...
Crying in the recliner
- By JillAline · Posted November 5, 2009
- 8 replies
- So another whole level of the crappiness of this Stage IV diagnosis just hit me today. Maybe my brain is just processing this bit by bit, but what happened is that I visited the naturopath today hoping ...
RE: Article from New York Times - Quandry for women over breast screenings
- By MarionBCDIY · Posted November 5, 2009
- 20 replies
- In our local paper today, there was an article regarding the controversy over mammograms -- after reading the whole article I think the most important statement came from Dr. Larry Norton, deputy physician ...
ALWAYS HOPE
- By sr2603 · Posted November 5, 2009
- 6 replies
- Just a quick note to inspire you girls. This morning I am sitting waiting for lab work down at the Cancer Center. This pleasant man comes by and sits beside me. We get talking. To cut to the chase, two ...
Another Birthday!
- By frostbite · Posted November 5, 2009
- 23 replies
- I celebrated my 44th birthday this week. The kids and my husband spoiled me and we're all going to a nice restaurant tomorrow night (a treat for us and good practice for the kids with table manners etc ...
another day
- By stuartrose · Posted November 5, 2009
- 0 replies
- Still searching for a trial. Looking on the east coast and have gotton on a 'list'. I'm going to cancer center on Monday and will start CT scan ...
News from the Back Deck 11-4-09
- By Beachbabe · Posted November 4, 2009
- 14 replies
- Hey Everyone~ I was under the (very mistaken) impression that the end of summer would bring with it some 'down time'--has anyone seen any down time? It's been a pretty eventful few weeks since I last ...
CT scan results "good" but confusing
- By JillAline · Posted November 3, 2009
- 4 replies
- So they're going to do a breast and thorax MRI in a couple of weeks. What's confusing is the following aobut my lungs: "questionable nodules along the lower lobes bilaterally." The oncologist says that ...
Xeloda....Round 1: Who's the Winner?
- By cherrysbaby · Posted November 3, 2009
- 2 replies
- My mommy will complete her first round of Xeloda tomorrow. She was super excited until I told her that she will be off a week and will have to go back on for another round, and possibly with another drug ...
Just an intro....
- By cherrysbaby · Posted November 3, 2009
- 5 replies
- Although it hasn't been my own, cancer has ruled the majority of my life. From the age of 8, I can remember running home from school to help give Mommy a bath because she couldn't do it herself after ...
so far....
- By stuartrose · Posted November 2, 2009
- 8 replies
- I had a lumpectomy and partial node dissection in 2001. Told my doctor I wanted an ophorectomy afterwards because my Mother had b/c at 30 and passed from ovarian cancer at 54. At my 5 year mark they found ...
APPREHENSIVE STAYING ON OWN
- By sr2603 · Posted November 2, 2009
- 16 replies
- For the first time ever living on my own with this disease, I was scared. Last night I wakened up around 1am with severe pain in my abdomen. It was awful. Similar to the pain I had a month or so ago which ...
Scars
- By Susansings · Posted November 2, 2009
- 8 replies
- I just read a wonderful book called "Little Bee" by Chris Cleave about a Nigerian refugee. This passage really spoke to me, although it was in a very different context, so I want to share it. "...please ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · Posted November 2, 2009
- 33 replies
- Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...
Have you heard of Thermal Imaging instead of mammograms?
- By MarionBCDIY · Posted November 1, 2009
- 4 replies
- I got connected with a gal in Northern Arizona, who does Thermal Imaging for BC -- she has had lots of success, much better than conventional mammograms. Since I cannot give her website on Inspire - please ...
Superheroness
- By CazzT · Posted November 1, 2009
- 3 replies
- I was explaining to my boys about the treatment I am going to have in the next few weeks. They know that I am having things done to fix my bones. My youngest son has aspergers and loves superheroes, so ...
Miracles are still happening!
- By maryk58 · Posted October 31, 2009
- 15 replies
- Miracles are still happening around me. Thursday Oct 29, 2009, 12:15 pm, Dylan Mackenzie Hughes arrived to meet her mommy and daddy, my daughter Jen and her husband Shawn. Dylan weighed in at 7# 11 oz ...
