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Journals
First Week Home After Radiation
- By tyke2you · Posted 1:38 am
- 0 replies
- Where has the week gone??? I've had my first week home after 6 weeks of radiation therapy. I truly can say I just don't know how to act being in one place for a whole week!!! IT'S GREAT!!! I got rested ...
Joining Inspire
- By Kathysbabygirl · Posted yesterday at 1:49 am
- 1 reply
- Not sure why I didn't do this sooner. Seeing other peoples trials and triumphs is theraputic, helpful, consoling and educational. I just watched a horribly wonderful movie...My sister's keeper and WOW ...
Giving Thanks!
- By Ovacom06 · Posted November 25, 2009
- 2 replies
- I am thankful for so much this year-my family, my friends, and my work. I am also thankful to you all my Inspire friends for you unwavering support. You have given me kind words of support especially ...
Good Review & Happy Thanksgiving
- By Kellyr1 · Posted November 24, 2009
- 3 replies
- Went to my 3 month checkup - I finished chemo July of 08 and CT Scan, Xray all clear and CA 125 5.3. Nice way to start of a holiday weekend! Happy Thanksgiving to you all ...
9 more weeks to go and counting
- By jenjen7111 · Posted November 24, 2009
- 1 reply
- hey everyone, my name is jennifer, go by jenjen7111. i am counting down my chemo now. i have done well (everyone says) i think i look like shit and sometimes feel even worse. i hate looking at myself ...
creosote bush tea
- By susangolfer · Posted November 24, 2009
- 4 replies
- I've recently been recommended to take creosote bush tea. The recommender is credible. I am currently NED and would like to stay that way. Does anyone have any experience and/or knowledge of this? I have ...
Increased CA125
- By laberg777 · Posted November 24, 2009
- 2 replies
- Well I got the most dreaded news yesterday from my oncologist. In August my CA125 level was at 10 and I posted on this site of my concern back then. 3 months later its at 1285. We are now redoing the ...
It's been a while....
- By HOPE4MYFRIEND · Posted November 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hello to everyone, its been such a long time since I have written here in this journal. Not that I haven't looked at the site but I haven't written. My best friend Judy is going through the chemo. Family ...
Trying to preserve fertility
- By amandajd · Posted November 21, 2009
- 3 replies
- So its been a little more than two weeks since I was diagnosed, and since then I feel like I have been flooded with information! I found out I have stage IIC, and my doctor is going to have me doing the ...
Chemo brain subsided :)
- By Gabriele · Posted November 21, 2009
- 0 replies
- Ladies, I want to trumpet it out to the world that 13 months after my last chemo, the debilitating chemo brain has left. There IS hope. My onco doc had told me it would take about a year to a year and ...
Rising CA125
- By dooder0420 · Posted November 20, 2009
- 21 replies
- Today I got the results from my latest bloodwork. It has risen, once again, from 15 to 19.6. Had the CT done yesterday, what a day that was, machine broke and had to go(in the dreaded blue gown and all ...
The end is finally here.
- By tyke2you · Posted November 19, 2009
- 11 replies
- It's been a long 6 weeks of radiation therapy, but the end is finally here. I rested most of today and have the room all packed up and ready to go home in the morning. We've made some wonderful friends ...
A Great Time!
- By Favored · Posted November 19, 2009
- 3 replies
- Hello to all, I just wanted to let you know, my sister and I went to a luncheon held at Mercy Hospital. It was for cancer survivors and there were so many people. The doctors were there and the American ...
Still some symptoms.
- By hope1960 · Posted November 18, 2009
- 1 reply
- I haven't been on in awhile... But I'm still a bit worried/concerned because my period has been soo irregular lately, I still have many symptoms so iam trying to figure out what has been going on ...
Today has been much better
- By tyke2you · Posted November 18, 2009
- 0 replies
- Today has been a much better day. Only 2 more radiation to go. I re-start chemo Dec. 2nd so we'll make another trip up here to KC on Dec 1 so we'll be here early for treatment. The next day I'll have ...
What a miserable three days
- By tyke2you · Posted November 17, 2009
- 1 reply
- What a miserable three days I've had. Sunday morning til Monday morning I lived in the bath room. We drove to KC Monday for treatment at 3:00. I slept in the car on the way up and went right to bed afterwards ...
CAT scan results
- By RhodaLois · Posted November 17, 2009
- 10 replies
- Phew. Nothing is worse than waiting for the results of a CAT. Finished my chemo for second recurrence of OVCA on Oct. 15, then had to wait three weeks for CAT then week and a half to get to see the doc ...
Wonderful
- By luvmymom18 · Posted November 16, 2009
- 4 replies
- It is wonderful to find such a group to discuss everything with that truly understands what you may be going through. Thank you to everyone for your wonderful responses... it is truly appreciated ...
From the land of plastic
- By tonye · Posted November 16, 2009
- 5 replies
- my body has completly changed and now, do i still care about getting a tummy tuck or a face lift? I think not!!! Right now all I care about is getting healthy again and running til the cows come home ...
NO RECURRENCE OF CANCER!
- By Angel1955 · Posted November 15, 2009
- 3 replies
- I had my CT scan on November 11th, after complaining to my cancer doctor about ongoing symptoms of pain on my lower left and upper right abdomen along with bowel issues. Thankfully, there was no evidence ...
