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Survivor stories
Share your story and be inspired by the stories of others.
Hopeful
- By youngmom · New reply July 11, 2009
- 5 replies
- It is almost midnight - a beautiful summer night. My daughter and her friends are outside celebrating her 14th birthday. The music is blaring (with some music I don't know) , the tent is set up in the ...
Endometrioid Epithelial Ovca Stage IV
- By gina67 · Posted June 27, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hello Everyone, Well Johanne went for her 3 month check up yesterday and was told things still look good. Today is 1 year since her last chemo. She is very happy and positive. I finally asked the nurse ...
Follow up on almost 9 years
- By spunky66 · New reply June 26, 2009
- 10 replies
- So many have asked me to share what I have done/been through/treatments...etc...with regard to sustaining almost 9 years with no recurrence after being diagnosed with stage 3c ovarian cancer...So I am ...
NOT MY STORY BUT COULD BE ANY OF OURS / PLEASE READ
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply June 24, 2009
- 15 replies
- PLEASE READ THIS FIRST... THIS IS NOT my story but It COULD be if we just changed the type of cancer to ovarian and plugged in 18 years as my time frame. I found this on Craigslist and it is too true ...
BRCA2 POSITIVE
- By Janice3 · New reply June 22, 2009
- 5 replies
- I recently went through the Colorectal Cancer Risk Assessment Clinic in 2008 at Hopkins and my BRCA2 gene was revealed as UNCERTAIN. Now, they are telling me to treat it as POSITIVE. I am 48 and a 10 ...
ASPARAGUS - CANCER CURE ?
- By Debofil · New reply June 17, 2009
- 16 replies
- Has anyone heard this ? This is an internet story that has been circulating. Not sure how true it is, but it can't hurt to try it. Dear Friends and Family, I am asking you to read this article to the ...
the dog lucky
- By lilwitchfromok · New reply June 10, 2009
- 13 replies
- i seen this email and had to share it with all of my freinds on this site because it made me cry it is a must read for every one. Lord put your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth. Anyone ...
Survived 32.5 years...where are you???
- By gina67 · New reply June 10, 2009
- 30 replies
- Hello there, I was reading through the posts and read one from a lady on here who was diagnosed 32.5 years ago. I have tried to find the post again, and now I can't. If you are reading this, and forgive ...
woo hoo!!! 1 year remission
- By katelynsmamaw · New reply June 5, 2009
- 21 replies
- I am so happy to say that my 1 yr. remission is coming at the end of the week. I am very thankful for this year of remission. Just hope it lasts. Here's to another year, and another year, etc. I hope ...
OC moved to bladder and pelvic floor
- By 8yearsandcounting · New reply May 27, 2009
- 6 replies
- I have just recently been told the OVC has taken up residence in the lining, inside and out, of my bladder. Also, it found a home on the floor of my pelvic. My DR said the only way to treat is to do chem ...
How cancer changed me
- By katelynsmamaw · New reply May 22, 2009
- 24 replies
- I don't think there is even one of us who can say that cancer didn't change them. It changed how I think. It changed how I live. It changed how I love. If anything good can come out of cancer it is that ...
Medicinal Marijuanna for nausea, pain, or dehydration?
- By shoppingkharma · New reply May 20, 2009
- 19 replies
- I noticed that I didn't see that anyone uses this medication for any of your side effects; quite possibly because of wealthy polititions trying to pad their pockets with payouts from the many drug companies ...
Surgical complications
- By Nanamom · New reply May 11, 2009
- 9 replies
- I wonder if there is anyone who had complications surrounding their debulking surgery? I had surgery for probable ovarian cancer November 27, 2007. Everything seemed okay (although I have no memory of ...
Tell The World Who We Are!
- By Powderpuff · Posted May 5, 2009
- 0 replies
- Hello everyone of hither thither and yon! We seem to be scattered all over this big blue marble. For those that I have not yet had the pleasure to meet, I am Brenda Lee, AKA Powderpuff, of Douglasville ...
Gemzar and Carboplatin
- By manoog · New reply May 2, 2009
- 8 replies
- Hello, I have OvIIIc and I developed a late rash to taxol and cisplatin, so have this new treatment. My oncologist said it should be as effective. My Ca125 dropped from 4200 to 19 with the taxol, but ...
When is a good time to let someone you just met know that you had cancer?
- By Jean1 · New reply April 22, 2009
- 14 replies
- I have been talking to someone on the phone the last couple of days that I met on a Cathotic dating sight. We seem like were hitting it off pretty well, and are meeting later for dinner. my question is....when ...
Some Humor
- By momanderson920 · New reply April 11, 2009
- 8 replies
- When I read toniava's post about the steroids and read her "bald, sick, and to boot fatter", it brought back memories from cancer treatment when I lost several teeth to dental abscesses (thanks to immunosuppression ...
CHANGE IN DIET?
- By dke47 · New reply March 30, 2009
- 10 replies
- Have any of you guys tried any diets like all organic or vegan or anything that you feel helped stop the growth of your cancer? When I was first diagnosed I thought I would just eat anything I wanted ...
What NOT to say to someone with cancer
- By katelynsmamaw · New reply March 29, 2009
- 32 replies
- Check this out ladies . Your gonna love this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLqHirQi_rs ...
13 year IIIC survivor...chiropractic care
- By asiababy · New reply March 27, 2009
- 7 replies
- hello everyone out there thats reading this. i have stayed alive for 13 years after having IIIC OVCA and treatment. I was 18 at the time I was diagnosed and was in the Air Force. My mom had just been ...
