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What, me worry?
How are you coping with the different emotional issues relating to your treatment and diagnosis?
Gotta start new chemo Wed. 11/25...
- By Dodie1 · New reply 1:52 pm
- 23 replies
- scared to death! Please send as many thoughts & prayers as you can. All are very much appreciated. Take care & God Bless ...
Choices...
- By Sandiestar · New reply yesterday at 9:11 am
- 10 replies
- so... have been to see the fertility Dr, he is happy to put me through a cycle of ivf to see if we can get me pregnant... he has told me he will double the standard dose as even tho I am only 28 due to ...
Test results
- By Dodie1 · New reply November 25, 2009
- 21 replies
- Got results Wednesday....the cancer is not fully gone. I've got to switch chemo drugs since I almost died from half of the last treatment. I've got to try Cisplatin. The new one can cause hearing loss ...
Has Anyone Tried Cancer Treatment Centers of America?
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply November 24, 2009
- 14 replies
- Has anyone tried Cancer Treatment Centers of America? I tease my husband about when we win the lottery, 'I'm going to Cancer Treatment Centers of America!' (like most people say Disneyland)! I can't afford ...
The Cobwebs In My Brain Are Getting Cleared Out
- By ThePhoenix · New reply November 24, 2009
- 14 replies
- Well, I've always *thought* I might go back to school. I would get so far in the process then drop it, figuring I was too old. Well, I got off my arse and am now enrolled at a technicall institute. I ...
So sad this week
- By SouthernBelle · New reply November 22, 2009
- 4 replies
- I hate the holiday's. I can remember as a child so excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now it seems that every year someone dies around the holiday. One of my friends lost her mom today to lung cancer ...
I thought Wed. 11/4 was the end of my life...
- By Dodie1 · New reply November 22, 2009
- 27 replies
- After having 14 chemo treatments with the same drug (Carbo), Wednesday my body decided that it wanted to have a severe allergic reaction. I was trying to be brave and tough and not say anything about ...
Worst things said...
- By melf · New reply November 19, 2009
- 18 replies
- We have had an ongoing thread here that pops up now and then wherein the question was asked, "what wa the worst thing said to you" or something to that effect. Bare with me as I could not find the thread ...
Right Now
- By Jen457 · New reply November 19, 2009
- 5 replies
- I was cleaning out my favorites and came across this link and wanted to share. http://positivepause.com/index.html ...
My Mom was recently dx with ovca stage IIIC and spread to liver.
- By MeaganWilson123 · New reply November 17, 2009
- 6 replies
- I am so upset. I don't know how to take this. My mother was dx in june 2009 with stage IIIC ovca. She had a complete hysterectomy with debulking surgery. afterwards she completed 6 rounds of carbr/taxol ...
Do YOU Remember?
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply November 16, 2009
- 16 replies
- There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, 'If I could only see the world, I ...
Insensitivity to Cancer Patients
- By ohmama123 · New reply November 14, 2009
- 40 replies
- I was at the DMV today as my license expired. When I went up to the desk the woman told me I needed to take off my scarf for the picture, and I told her I could not for medical reasons and I would like ...
Unsure if I'm doing the right thing
- By pasosquirt · New reply November 11, 2009
- 26 replies
- I just joined, so hello all! Anyway, two years ago in April, I went to my OB/GYN to get a much overdue pap, and to discuss irregular periods (I was always like clockwork prior). I told her that I was ...
Understanding CA-125
- By NannyLoLo · New reply November 9, 2009
- 4 replies
- Hello my sisters...I have been reading the boards for months but this is my first post. I was diagnosed with stage IIIC in February 09 after sub-optimal debulking surgery and went immediately on taxol/carboplatin ...
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear -
- By Shelter · New reply November 3, 2009
- 7 replies
- Perfect Love Casts Out Fear - NEW! by Joyce Meyer ok I pasted this here- but it blessed me I am right in teh midst of this very thing & POOF I get email !!!!!! thank you Lord.... Do you suffer from fear ...
getting sicer with each chemo
- By loveoneanother · New reply October 31, 2009
- 21 replies
- Please help me ladies. I just finished 3rd chemo of 6 with carbo only. this is a reaccuring 3 c Ovarian cancer. the problem is yesturday I was sick with constipation so I took stool softner and senna ...
No CAT scan for 6 mos maybe more
- By Ansophie · New reply October 28, 2009
- 14 replies
- I am 6 mos post chemo for III c PPC. Chemo went well and my CA125 is down to 1 from 32,obviously not a good marker for me. My debulking in Jan 2009 was optimal at Mass General Hosp and I had a clean CAT ...
Dog at my Feet, Kitten on my Shoulder, Surgery Behind Me!
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply October 28, 2009
- 16 replies
- To All my OVCA Friends, Home from the hospital! FINALLY! After a week being 'held hostage' LOL I'm finally home! I had a tennis ball sized tumor removed. It was attached to my bowel so the doctor also ...
The Characters of Cancer (Giggle)!!!!!
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply October 26, 2009
- 14 replies
- The following are TRUE stories! The names have been changed to protect the innocent? LOL The first character I met at chemo is an elderly woman who comes in occasionally and Blows the harmonica like nobody's ...
Coffee
- By Ell · New reply October 23, 2009
- 17 replies
- Hi All, Just wondering, is coffee bad for us? I love to have a cup in the morning and sometimes two. Do you think it is unhealthy or will contribute to a recurrance? I'm doing my best to eat well, but ...
