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Journals
I just had to share this with someone
- By kimfromaugusta · Posted October 25, 2009
- 9 replies
- ok.. so like always we were rushing around getting ready for something we were already late for.. i was in the bathroom finishing up.. (one thing you should know, i am completely bald).. i yelled out ...
How late were you diagnosed?
- By sharon1630 · Posted October 25, 2009
- 10 replies
- Has anyone gone through severe weight loss (e.g. muscle atrophy) and exhibiting ovca symptoms over a long period of time before being diagnosed? I'm beginning to believe that the later one is staged (especially ...
Chemo and Colds
- By Amy2012 · Posted October 25, 2009
- 10 replies
- I am supposed to be going for my next chemo this week, and I am not sure if any of you have had this problem, but my daughter caught a terrible cold last night, high fever, coughing, and I just started ...
A Hair Raising Event
- By Amy2012 · Posted October 25, 2009
- 10 replies
- This was quite the event. I had been thinking for weeks, well, more or less worrying about how my daughter would handle my hair loss. She's almost 5 and my hair had been coming out by the handful, and ...
Puzzzy Cancer
- By CATSMEOW · Posted October 24, 2009
- 5 replies
- I have responded to many post on the Ovarian Cancer Alliance. To my utter disgust, they have not been posted. See for yourself, with your own post. They are not for you, but against you. Keep Positive ...
A CYST ON MY OVARY....
- By sonia40 · Posted October 24, 2009
- 13 replies
- Hello everybody.... for those wonderful people who are keeping up with my posts...(LOL)...im just wondering if anyone can claryify this confusing situation....i was diagnosed with CIN1/HPV...so back in ...
Just something to brighten your day...
- By abbaschild · Posted October 24, 2009
- 10 replies
- I have to share this!....I LOVED this!!! ....just click on the link below :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EYAUazLI 9k Blessings and hugs and smiles to all my sisters ...
Take The Time To Live!!!
- By abbaschild · Posted October 23, 2009
- 12 replies
- A little girl had been shopping with her mom in Target. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence. It was pouring rain outside, the kind of rain that ...
HOPE ANYONE CAN HELP ME...
- By sonia40 · Posted October 23, 2009
- 8 replies
- Hello all once again as i mentioned before i am scheduled for my app in december..(re partial nephrectomy)....i just have a few symptoms that im dealing with and thought which better place to ask than ...
CA125 results after chemo #2
- By mombon · Posted October 22, 2009
- 7 replies
- First of all I wanted to thank all of you who reply to journal entries. I read them on a daily basis and they have helped me. You are all sooo knowledgeable! I returned from my doctor appointment realizing ...
Nausea is Back
- By tyke2you · Posted October 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- Whoooooooooooooo!!!! It's baaack! I was REALLY nauseous this morning. Good thing Larry was here to drive. I couldn't sit up and he helped me walk to the treatment room. My doctor's nurse saw I wasn't ...
Radiation Treatment Continues
- By tyke2you · Posted October 22, 2009
- 0 replies
- Monday Larry went to treatment with me. It was the first time he saw the radiation room and the "Big Bertha" machine. It was a little intimidating watching the machine rotate back and forth, pausing for ...
FINALLY GOT AN APP WITH A HOSPITAL....
- By sonia40 · Posted October 21, 2009
- 10 replies
- Hello all i am soooo excited i just had to let everyone know the wonderful news...today i received a letter from 1 of the hospitals that i was on the waiting list regarding my kidney tumor....i have an ...
So Much and So Little
- By Amy2012 · Posted October 21, 2009
- 0 replies
- My husband was away for a screen writing contest in Hollywood this past week (which he WON for his genre, YAY!!!), and since I felt well enough, I pushed him to go, as it really was a chance of a lifetime ...
Elevated CA125
- By laberg777 · Posted October 21, 2009
- 7 replies
- I just finished chemo at the end of July. I was diagnosed with IIIC. My CA125 was at 3. In August it was 10. Is this normal for it to go up and is more an actual #, than when your on chemo? I started ...
Immediate Action Needed if you live in TX, OK, NM or CO
- By CaraPolicy · Posted October 19, 2009
- 0 replies
- The deadline for your Member of Congress to sign this letter is Wednesday: http://capwiz.com/ovarian/issues/alert/? alertid=14187381 ...
No surgery--yet!
- By kayb · Posted October 18, 2009
- 4 replies
- Ok, Oct 16, 2009--my doctor's asst calls. She states that my doctor, upon looking over my charts, feels there's not a significant change in my "tumor", so he's not going to rush to judgement for surgery ...
I have lost my mind due to ovarian cancer!
- By bevnamy · Posted October 18, 2009
- 10 replies
- My mom has stage 4 cancer. she went in the Hospital on October 2nd 2009. She thought she had a cold, she was coughing for a few months her dr. changed one of her meds because coughing was a side effect ...
WENT TO THE ER.....
- By sonia40 · Posted October 18, 2009
- 20 replies
- Hello to all you wonderful people and thankyou for responding my post and offering wonderful advice....as i mentioned in my post a couple of days earlier...my right kidney has been hurting that no amount ...
MY KIDNEY HURTS SO MUCH....
- By sonia40 · Posted October 16, 2009
- 6 replies
- Hello all for any of you wonderful people who have read my posts in the past will know by know bout my kidney tumor (angiolypoma)...as i mentioned before it was only found by accident through an MRI....so ...
