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Stage 4 Breast Cancer with mets to liver
- By NurseJoan · New reply yesterday at 11:42 pm
- 13 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 ...
Don't know what to do already
- By Dolphinlady · New reply yesterday at 8:04 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 ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · New reply yesterday at 4:04 pm
- 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 ...
A math puzzle for you all!!
- By gasketman · New reply yesterday at 3:27 pm
- 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 ...
It's back again.....Help telling my son
- By washinbrig · Posted yesterday at 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 · New reply yesterday at 1:18 pm
- 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 · New reply yesterday at 1:12 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 ...
lymph nodes
- By stuartrose · New reply November 19, 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 ...
Lost your health insurance? Got Breast Cancer? Read this!
- By Pam-Pam · New reply November 18, 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 ...
A Lazy Susan for your side table or nightstand
- By JudyV · New reply November 18, 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 ...
Neurontin for pain management/neuropathy
- By gpawelski · New reply November 18, 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 ...
NED with Xeloda
- By dfleaman · New reply November 18, 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 ...
Mother
- By LaGata · New reply November 16, 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 ...
Riddles for today
- By gasketman · New reply November 16, 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 ...
Uh Oh I am really Dying Soon
- By JudyV · New reply November 14, 2009
- 87 replies
- Every now and then it hits. It hit tonight, big time. I wanted to call someone, but who do you call to say something like that? Who would understand how this realization can just suddenly flood over me ...
Is It Real? Can it be?
- By JudyV · New reply November 13, 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 ...
Aloe Arborescens
- By stuartrose · New reply November 13, 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 ...
Started radiation yesterday
- By mom2acat · New reply November 12, 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 ...
Back on the road
- By yesshecan · New reply November 11, 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 ...
Another Birthday!
- By frostbite · New reply November 10, 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 ...
