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Journals
Me
- By yogachick1 · Posted October 3, 2009
- 10 replies
- Hello all, I'm Janet. Live in Seattle WA, and am 29 years old. I lost someone close a few years ago just as i was starting a new career. I have found support in many forms, even with its not easy. My ...
Having a bad day!
- By Ovacom06 · Posted October 1, 2009
- 16 replies
- Lost a dear friend today, we were diagnosed around the same time me with ovarian cancer and her with melanoma. I am trying to stay focused on Valerie’s spirit, and my faith leads me to believe that ...
Remission again~#4
- By jbgary · Posted October 1, 2009
- 4 replies
- Praise the Lord, I got my scan results and am in remission for the fourth time. I will be having two more rounds of chemo and then 2 years of chemo maintenance. I'm thankful for good results again ...
Ovarian Cancer Stage 3C
- By edna72375 · Posted October 1, 2009
- 0 replies
- My mother has an ovarian cancer stage 3c. She just finished her 2nd Carboplatin chemotherapy treatment, but I am concern in regards to her CA125, it jump from 1017 to 1665 that is within 3 weeks it was ...
Lifestyle causes cancer? No way!
- By LaGata · Posted October 1, 2009
- 23 replies
- As a friend and I were chatting today, she asked a question and I answered automatically. Then I wondered if I was right and went looking for answers. The question was how long has breast cancer been ...
Almost 60 days out from stem cell transplant
- By joyrmttx · Posted September 30, 2009
- 2 replies
- I woke up this morning to a beautiful day outside and blessed to be feeling better with each day. I still have some issues with fatigue and a bit of weakness which is expected after all my body has been ...
Quincy's Memorial Service this Sat, Oct 3rd
- By kq182 · Posted September 28, 2009
- 23 replies
- I would like to thank each and everyone of you who have expressed your love, comforting words, and prayers for my husband and myself. You are all so dear to me, and I thank you all. Please keep me in ...
Uh Oh I am really Dying Soon
- By JudyV · Posted September 28, 2009
- 87 replies
- Every now and then it hits. It hit tonight, big time. I wanted to call someone, but who do you call to say something like that? Who would understand how this realization can just suddenly flood over me ...
Oncologist Appt
- By LizardmyOli · Posted September 28, 2009
- 0 replies
- I have an oncologist appt today,, for some reason I am not into going again....... Maybe only 7 more months of treatments? My doctors are all real nice and all that, I just get tired of seeing doctors ...
DC/NoVa/MD Friends: Second Annual "Mason Mile" and Superstar Fami
- By dleach · Posted September 27, 2009
- 0 replies
- The second annual Superstar Family Fun Day and Mason Mile Run/Walk will take place on Saturday, October 17th, from 9am - 12 AM at Key Elementary School, 2300 Key Boulevard, Arlington, VA. Rain or shine ...
I Know A Place
- By Amy2012 · Posted September 26, 2009
- 10 replies
- I know of a place where the apples grow As brilliant as the colors Of her autumnal hand And the crisp cool air Scented heavily of spices That are the harvest of This womans land.... Today my brother and ...
All that is Real
- By Amy2012 · Posted September 25, 2009
- 2 replies
- Yesterday, I had THE talk with my oncologist. I have Stage 1C Grade 2 Ovarian Cancer, which I knew when I read the pathology report several weeks earlier. Today was the strategy session; the typical 6 ...
New photo
- By LaGata · Posted September 25, 2009
- 9 replies
- Okay, after all this time, I've put Oliver's picture away and here is a photo of me, less than a year ago but before the Stage IV diagnosis or hair loss from being back on chemo. I hope I don't frighten ...
Quincy passed peacefully, God has a new Angel
- By kq182 · Posted September 25, 2009
- 72 replies
- My Quincy left me yesterday early evening, I pray that God has welcomed him and is comforting him and he has PEACE. His pain is over, but mine is so deep, I know I am being selfish but I cannot beleieve ...
MRI Today
- By LizardmyOli · Posted September 24, 2009
- 6 replies
- I have my monthly MRI today at 1220! Hopefully nothing has changed for the worse, maybe better? I have to be there an hour early to take medication to make me relax or I get "twitchy" as they say ...
September 22nd 2009
- By Chuckr37 · Posted September 22, 2009
- 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 ...
Please Pray that God takes Quincy home soon
- By kq182 · Posted September 22, 2009
- 34 replies
- Thank you all for your prayers and words of comfort. Quincy is resting comfortably now and seems to have his pain under control. I have been staying at the hospital with him and it has been horrible to ...
September 21st 2009
- By Chuckr37 · Posted September 21, 2009
- 4 replies
- My surgery is finally sceduled, 8am Wednesday the 23rd, just two days from now! I will be glad to get this part over with. I will be out of touch unless they have a public computer I can log on to, but ...
Another day as a Cancer patient
- By LizardmyOli · Posted September 21, 2009
- 0 replies
- I am tired today, not a bit of sleep last night, too much going on and then I get confused and irritated the following day! I saw my psychologist this morning and it was helpful even though I was in very ...
"Better Half" Concluded His Journey- 9/16/09
- By iva1 · Posted September 20, 2009
- 18 replies
- When the time came that our Earl Ray Huffingham could no longer make the difficult trip to the hospital for transfusions we all knew that his time left with us was limitted and when the last of the blood ...
