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Support groups
Discuss the benefits of support groups. What is good and not-so-good? Are they for you?
Mother's Day
- By Norie · New reply May 11, 2009
- 16 replies
- Hi To All: Sunday is Mom's Day, I have a new and more profound feeling about this day. Up until recently I celebrated this day as did everyone,with the women in my life that raised children. I was on ...
Fibromyalgia
- By Vintage · New reply May 5, 2009
- 7 replies
- Does anyone have fibromyalgia as well as stage IV? The Femara is causing severe joint pain and I'm having a difficult time walking (need to use a cane) and a chair at times. The joints in my fingers ache ...
Mothering with Mets
- By Cathysch · New reply April 24, 2009
- 14 replies
- After meeting up with a number of women who are mothering for young children at the Phila conference I decided to start a Yahoo group "motheringwithmets". Please sign up and let me know any thoughts you ...
Philly Conference Attendees
- By lynnwv · New reply April 19, 2009
- 21 replies
- Is anyone else planning on attending the Advanced Breast Cancer Conference in Philadelphia, April 18-19 ...
Happy Easter
- By edaura · New reply April 12, 2009
- 10 replies
- To all of you wonderful men and women who inspire each other every day on this site. Wishing you a happy Easter. Easter for me has always represented a time of new life and new beginnings. I pray that ...
Angels
- By Josephine55 · New reply April 10, 2009
- 9 replies
- Please don't think I'm nuts, but has anybody had any experience with angels ...
What does it mean?
- By Angelgirl28 · New reply April 1, 2009
- 4 replies
- I am at a loss. My dear friends wife developed breast cancer - unfortunately, they will not give any details and I need some answers. I have heard that a double mastectomy was done and that it is Stage ...
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- By LucyP · Posted March 27, 2009
- 0 replies
- If you live in the San Francisco Bay area/Silicon Valley, you might want to come along to this event in Mountain View this weekend. I'm in San Jose; please let me know if you are going so we can try to ...
Austin area stage iv Tea
- By mariec · New reply March 26, 2009
- 1 reply
- I'd like to invite anyone interested (and probably in the Austin. TX area) to a Tea! It's hosted by the Breast Cancer Resource Center of Austin and anyone touched by Stage IV disease is welcome. It's ...
Local support group just for "metsers"
- By kleighk · New reply March 16, 2009
- 7 replies
- THANK YOU to all of you for understanding and talking about that big alligator sitting in the middle of the room!! If we "act " fine, then family doesn't really believe we're that sick, yet if we "act ...
Anyone with brain mets?
- By Cathysch · New reply March 12, 2009
- 9 replies
- Hello all -- I am new to this group although I have been metastatic since 6/05. I had been fairly stable for 3 years but needed fairly consistent chemotherapy to stay that way. In August of this year ...
Help!
- By Josephine55 · New reply March 6, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hi! My friend just found out that her bone mets have increased. She's going to be started on radiation and then Taxol and Avastin.I was wondering if anyone who has gone through these treatments can give ...
YOU are my Support Group...Thanks!
- By Beachbabe · New reply February 19, 2009
- 12 replies
- Hello My Fellow Alligator Wrestlers~ After my whirlwind Stage 4 diagnosis, I beat down the doors to find a support group. I found one being given at a local hospital (though the thought of subjecting ...
STAGE IV BOOK
- By edaura · New reply February 18, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hi all, I haven't posted for a while because I have been going through a very tough time having lost my husband to cancer while battling my own stage IV breast cancer. As you may know, I wrote a book ...
Welcome feedback in starting a support group
- By darn · New reply February 18, 2009
- 6 replies
- Our Cancer Center is having a program this week dedicated to those of us Living with metastatic cancer. We are having an Oncologist speak to us. As of now, we do not have a support group. I am excited ...
young womens conference
- By peggyr · New reply February 14, 2009
- 4 replies
- anyone going? thought I would pass info along: 9th Annual Conference for Young Women Affected by Breast Cancer in Dallas, Texas , Feb 27,2009 ...
my friend
- By Josephine55 · New reply February 14, 2009
- 5 replies
- My friend, Mary, was diagnosed 2 years ago with mets. She's been doing good, but right now is in pain and feeling down in the dumps. The pain she will get managed, but does anyone have any suggestions ...
Local support group just for "metsers"
- By kleighk · New reply February 9, 2009
- 6 replies
- THANK YOU to all of you for understanding and talking about that big alligator sitting in the middle of the room!! If we "act " fine, then family doesn't really believe we're that sick, yet if we "act ...
To laugh or cry....
- By cancerkicker · New reply January 31, 2009
- 15 replies
- So last night I attended a seminar at my local hospital where the doctor (not mine) was supposed to give the results of the latest findings in San Antonio. I drug another bc survivor with me and when ...
500 And Rising
- By Beachbabe · New reply January 6, 2009
- 2 replies
- I've been watching the "new members" number rise daily since I joined this site over the Summer...and we did it...we have hit 500 members! Makes me happy and sad at the same time...happy to have more ...
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