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Chemo/Radiation on 11/4/09 - STAGE IV NSCLC

kjseal
  • By kjseal · New reply 10:42 pm
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • Long day today. 5 1/2 hrs at the cancer center. Blood work show WBC taking a beating and RBC 2.97. I'm anemic so they gave me a shot of Aranesp. The oncologist is concerned about my peripheral neuropathy ...

SO excited to share what I have found!

pwrsrg77
  • By pwrsrg77 · New reply 10:06 pm
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • I have received TONS of wonderful support from this amazing community of people just like myself. All that struggle with debilitating symptoms, wrong diagnosis, less than quality doctors etc... I wish ...

14 YRS SINCE MY BROTHER PASSED AWAY...

sonia40
  • By sonia40 · New reply 9:31 pm
  • Journal · 13 replies
  • Hello all the wonderful ladies and gents on this wonderful site.... Today is a sad day for me....today is my brothers anniversary....he passed away exactly 14yrs ago of pacreatic cancer..he was only 28yrs ...

September 22nd 2009

Chuckr37
  • By Chuckr37 · New reply 9:06 pm
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • My surgery has been pushed back from 8am to 10:30am, I can handle that. I will head down and have a CAT scan on the way to surgery and before theu start hacking and cutting they will do the biopsy and ...

Just an Update

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · New reply 9:03 pm
  • Journal · 12 replies
  • It Was a very busy week last week, with many trips up to Atlanta, and I have not kept up with the journal as well as I said I would:) Mostly I have been communicating with many wonderful people on the ...

:)

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · New reply 8:55 pm
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • 1985 One cold winters Morning I dropped to my knees in prayer, Snow and Ice were at the window, I asked Lord ? Are You really there? I asked for a sign, I begged and I pleaded I made promises, if you ...

I hope we all have a beautiful day!

kelsterlv
  • By kelsterlv · New reply 7:37 pm
  • Journal · 3 replies
  • Good morning everyone, I am sitting here drinking my coffee reading everyones posts today, and I have replied to alot of them. I have called people by the wrong names LOL, its coffee time. But I hope ...

11-04-09 9:30am

wifeofhubby62
  • By wifeofhubby62 · New reply 7:27 pm
  • Journal · 1 reply
  • not the same early rise as Levi. Going to meat sale at local country store. some good bargains. They have a real good apple pie. Levi has a problem with the strengthin his lower legs. We have to talk ...

4 nov 530 am

levi
  • By levi · New reply 7:19 pm
  • Journal · 5 replies
  • wx today here in nh pc 40 50 meat shopping today at local condty store monthy meats sale best area ...

Somebody PLEASE HELP!!! ={

pwrsrg77
  • By pwrsrg77 · New reply 6:01 pm
  • Journal · 73 replies
  • Well, I'm now 2 years into a disease that is sucking the life out of me. If I had a nickel for every time I've balled my eyes out & said my famous quote "I can't take this anymore" I'd be a very rich ...

Vitamins

robinw
  • By robinw · Posted 5:29 pm
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • I would like to know exactly what top notch vitamins in a muti I should be taking now that my MOM has MDS? Help Please ...

Just trying to say hello

scottdoris1
  • By scottdoris1 · Posted 5:09 pm
  • Journal · 0 replies
  • Not really sure what to say. I understand the body hurts... bones hurt part... You're going to have to give me a chance to adjust to you. That's what people do when becoming friends. Anyway that's what ...

Inspire members featured

Brian
  • By Brian · New reply 4:05 pm
  • Journal · 29 replies
  • Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...

Dancing on the abyss

yesshecan
  • By yesshecan · New reply 3:53 pm
  • Journal · 19 replies
  • Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...

New website!

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · New reply 2:43 pm
  • Journal · 4 replies
  • I found a website called Mednotes ( I posted the link on my favorites). I was a bit impressed by a quick response they gave me overnight. It lets you enter your meds, conditions, allergies, etc...., then ...

YOU CAN SURVIVE WITH CML

Sue62
  • By Sue62 · New reply 1:26 pm
  • Discussion in Leukemia · 14 replies
  • CML or Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia is something that you do not want to have, but it is treatable. Sharing your experiences with others can make all the difference in the world as to how you will live ...

New JAMA report Oct 13, 2009

LAsky26
  • By LAsky26 · New reply 1:24 am
  • Journal · 22 replies
  • The Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) released a new report on Oct. 13, 2009 regarding robotic vs open prostectomy. Anyone considering or facing this option is recommended to research this ...

Happy Halloween 2009? ... Stage IV NSCLC

kjseal
  • By kjseal · New reply yesterday at 4:24 pm
  • Journal · 16 replies
  • It's hard to imagine a single event that can turn a person's world and inner being upside down, inside out and topsy/turvy more quickly then when one hears those cancer words - malignant and metasticized ...

A Hair Raising Event

Amy2012
  • By Amy2012 · New reply yesterday at 1:39 pm
  • Journal · 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 ...

RENAL ANGIOLIPOMA ANYONE???....

sonia40
  • By sonia40 · New reply November 2, 2009
  • Journal · 8 replies
  • Hello everyone..... as you all know me for those people who are following my posts....i have been told that i have a 5cm Renal angiolipoma on my right kidney....(have not had a biopsy as yet)...i also ...