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prayers for a Little Girl (Anaplastic Astrocytoma, Grade III on brain stem)

attilafromhungary
  • By attilafromhungary · Posted yesterday at 3:43 am
  • Journal · 11 replies
  • Dear All, I am a father of a 5 and a half years old beautiful girl, Bogika. We live in Hungary and till February 18th 2013 we had beautiful life with Bogika and with my wife, Zsuzsi. On February 18th ...

Unexplained stomach pains from meds for ALL

Liams-mom
  • By Liams-mom · Posted May 16, 2013
  • Discussion in Raising a child with cancer · 5 replies
  • Hi everyone..I haven't been on here for a while and I hope everyone is doing well. I have a question for other parents who have children diagnosed with A.L.L. My 13 year old son was diagnosed in April ...

Separation Anxiety

klgreen
  • By klgreen · Posted May 8, 2013
  • Discussion in Raising a child with cancer · 5 replies
  • Hello, my son was diagnosed wit Medulloblastoma in October 2012. He celebrated his 4th birthday in November. He had surgery to remove tumor which was a success, 6 weeks of proton therapy radiation, and ...

Thymus Extract

USMCMama
  • By USMCMama · Posted May 7, 2013
  • Discussion in Treatment · 0 replies
  • I received a report from a friend highlighting Thymus Extract. It is a nutritional supplement to treat autoimmunity issues, allergies, chemo side effects, and cancer in general. Does anyone take this ...

21 year old nephew

Peented
  • By Peented · Posted May 3, 2013
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • My 21-year old nephew had a medulloblastoma tumor removed from his brain in his senior year of high school. Had cancer and radiation for almost a year. Then a year later had another cancerous nodule removed ...

CNS relapse with ALL

puddinlynn
  • By puddinlynn · Posted May 2, 2013
  • Discussion in Treatment · 3 replies
  • Has anyone experienced a CNS relapse with your child with diagnosis of ALL If so, how was it treated and were you given any stats about reaching remission again and/ or survival rate. Thank you ...

Gross Hematuria 19mos. No Diagnosis? Signs and symptoms of Bladder cancer

Toran_Kids_Gone_Wild
  • By Toran_Kids_Gone_Wild · Posted April 23, 2013
  • Discussion in Treatment · 1 reply
  • I've joined because I'm trying to research information on behalf of my 15 yr old Son Michael. In July of 2011 he had a sudden onset of painful urination accompanied by cola colored urine. He's been admitted ...

My Baby Michael...

Toran_Kids_Gone_Wild
  • By Toran_Kids_Gone_Wild · Posted April 23, 2013
  • Journal · 2 replies
  • I've joined because I'm trying to research information on behalf of my 15 yr old Son Michael. In July of 2011 he had a sudden onset of painful urination accompanied by cola colored urine. He's been admitted ...

coping is a daily adventure

gerry04363
  • By gerry04363 · Posted April 23, 2013
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Coping Skills A Personalized Introspection, Dealing with a Genetic Disorder Neurofibromatosis Type 1 Gerard FitzGerald Coping Skills Introduction: Coping skills, is something that each one of us utilize ...

Child with underlying acute lymphoblastic leukaemia with ascites

cheahbooneu
  • By cheahbooneu · Posted April 22, 2013
  • Discussion in Treatment · 3 replies
  • Hi, i have a 10 years old child who is diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. He had recently completed his chemotherapy; scheduled to start his maintainance chemotherapy in May 2013. However ...

Kids with cancer, showing it off in a Fashion Show!

LyrisMom
  • By LyrisMom · Posted April 20, 2013
  • Discussion in Awareness and fundraising · 3 replies
  • My six year old daughter was diagnosed with osteosarcoma (bone cancer) last year. She completed her last round of chemo this past January. She is doing great! Her hair is growing back and she is so excited ...

Medical Masks for Children

MIT-mask-design-team
  • By MIT-mask-design-team · Posted April 17, 2013
  • Discussion in Raising a child with cancer · 3 replies
  • I am student at MIT working on a project to design a comfortable, effective and fun-looking medical mask for children. We are looking for volunteers to share your experience with masks and help us understand ...

Please help me out and pray for us..

mango1990
  • By mango1990 · Posted April 16, 2013
  • Journal · 11 replies
  • I have twin brothers, 5years old. One of them has nephrotic syndrome. The other one was doing well. But recently, he had some infection few weeks back and and last week he was caught by flu, had high ...

Chemo

2kayla
  • By 2kayla · Posted April 12, 2013
  • Discussion in Treatment · 4 replies
  • Hi my 3 year old daughter has medullomyblastoma . She judged completed 6 weeks of radiation/chemo in Texas and now we are in California to start chemo treatment . I was wondering if any of you knew if ...

B Vitamins as antidote to neuropathy?

Andie4
  • By Andie4 · Posted April 11, 2013
  • Discussion in Raising a child with cancer · 5 replies
  • My 7 year old son is 18 months into his treatment for leukemia, and gets Vincristine IV once a month as part of that treatment. We have noticed that he definitely has some gait issues - he skips or hops ...

Five million

Brian
  • By Brian · Posted April 11, 2013
  • Journal · 205 replies
  • Dear members, Yesterday, Inspire reached a milestone: five million posts written by members! Each of these posts, and the 700 million words they contain, are a simple measure of how much we all do to ...

Primary Symptoms of cancer???

mango1990
  • By mango1990 · Posted April 11, 2013
  • Discussion in Awareness and fundraising · 14 replies
  • Hiiii everyone... I want to gain some knowledge from you all. The first question that comes in my mind is, what primary symptoms made you feel that your child has/may have cancer? Please share.. Prayers ...

Could this be cancer?

lilyofthevalley218
  • By lilyofthevalley218 · Posted April 2, 2013
  • Discussion in Newly diagnosed · 5 replies
  • I'm sorry if this is the wrong group to post this in but my daughter is 25 months 22 corrected she has been the same weight for over a year her doctor ordered a thyroid blood test and other blood work ...

The Inspire Q&A: Inspire talks with Deanna Attai, MD

John2
  • By John2 · Posted April 1, 2013
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • Dear members, We at Inspire are pleased to bring you the latest in a series of Q&A interviews with people who are making contributions to helping patients and caregivers worldwide. The people in this ...

spinal fusion and 2nd opinion

momofalli
  • By momofalli · Posted March 26, 2013
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • My 12 year old daughter is being recommended for spinal fusion. Her spine is having problems since she had a tumor removed on her spine and received radiation there. The doctor is talking about her wearing ...

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