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Chemo and Radiation????

lovedbydoug66
  • By lovedbydoug66 · Posted yesterday at 8:46 pm
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  • Found out earlier this week that my hubby is not able to have surgery to remove the tumor in his pancreas, the surgeron has recommended to have intense chemo and radiation over the next 3 months to see ...

Looking for someone been there done that throat cancer, rads, chemo

kevinsspot
  • By kevinsspot · Posted yesterday at 8:34 pm
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  • This is Paaatriot101 from the head and neck cancer group and I have opened this membership for my husband because he is going to need some help and support to get through my bout with throat cancer. Having ...

Sharing from my morning for all animal and especially horse lovers

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · Posted yesterday at 1:44 pm
  • 1 reply
  • Thought I would share this from my morning with all you animal and especially horse lovers. Today I started wearing a mask when I go down to the barn and work around the horses and chickens and hay ...

I miss being able to lift my voice in song:(

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · Posted yesterday at 11:26 am
  • 4 replies
  • Talking has become a great effort now, and who knows may lose it completely for a while again after the 19th...sigh. I think that is the scariest and saddest part of the throat cancer for me. I love talking ...

7 n0v 500am

levi
  • By levi · Posted yesterday at 5:02 am
  • 7 replies
  • looking like slow day here wx nice 30 40s ...

90 days from transplant doctor visit

joyrmttx
  • By joyrmttx · Posted November 6, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • It's already been 90 days from my transplant date and time for rechecks at M D Anderson. My best friend Ruby took me back down to see the transplant oncologist and the lymphoma specialist. We had to start ...

horoscope for today :)

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · Posted November 6, 2009
  • 2 replies
  • See what I mean, lol Libra By Rick Levine Today you may get a taste of the tough issues that you must tackle in the coming months. Luckily, you are not being asked to fix everything now, but it's not ...

Poooooop

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · Posted November 5, 2009
  • 15 replies
  • Well I guess I knew it wasn't going to be good news when the doc called hubby's cell and said to come in today to go over latest scan... SO we went. The cancer has spread beyond the tumor into a fatty ...

Health-focused market research opportunity in Boston

TeamInspire
  • By TeamInspire · Posted November 5, 2009
  • 0 replies
  • One of Inspire's partners, Schlesinger Associates, a national marketing research company, is looking for one male or female over the age of 18 who has been diagnosed within the past 2 years with non-small ...

Joe and his exciting week so far

shasha712
  • By shasha712 · Posted November 5, 2009
  • 3 replies
  • First I want to thank everybody for the prayers for the results of Joe's Pet Scan. Joe has been such a trooper and such an inspiration to all of us in his family. Today he will receive his 8th round of ...

SO excited to share what I have found!

pwrsrg77
  • By pwrsrg77 · Posted November 4, 2009
  • 15 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 ...

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

kjseal
  • By kjseal · Posted November 4, 2009
  • 14 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 ...

Vitamins

robinw
  • By robinw · Posted November 4, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • 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 November 4, 2009
  • 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 ...

I hope we all have a beautiful day!

kelsterlv
  • By kelsterlv · Posted November 4, 2009
  • 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 ...

:)

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · Posted November 3, 2009
  • 5 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 ...

New website!

LizardmyOli
  • By LizardmyOli · Posted November 3, 2009
  • 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 ...

14 YRS SINCE MY BROTHER PASSED AWAY...

sonia40
  • By sonia40 · Posted November 3, 2009
  • 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 ...

Dancing on the abyss

yesshecan
  • By yesshecan · Posted November 2, 2009
  • 22 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 ...

Living a full life AFTER cancer

believer28
  • By believer28 · Posted November 1, 2009
  • 1 reply
  • I am happy and grateful to be here. I finished my treatment 3 yrs ago (11/7 is my "anniversary") and have realized that life will forever be different. Those of us in the cancer world have all heard the ...

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