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Dancing on the abyss

yesshecan
  • By yesshecan · New reply 2:33 pm
  • 24 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 ...

Starting a journey

Stuckdh
  • By Stuckdh · New reply 2:19 pm
  • 5 replies
  • It has been 4 weeks since initially diagnosed with bladder cancer. Thursday the results of the biopsy came back and I have high grade CIS cancer of the bladder. That God for kidney stones since that was ...

Sharing from my morning for all animal and especially horse lovers

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · New reply 2:18 pm
  • 2 replies
  • 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 ...

God took my hero home

wife
  • By wife · New reply 2:07 pm
  • 3 replies
  • I lost the other half of my heart this morning. He fought until the very end ...

Uh Oh I am really Dying Soon

JudyV
  • By JudyV · New reply 12:05 pm
  • 76 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 ...

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

kevinsspot
  • By kevinsspot · New reply 11:42 am
  • 1 reply
  • 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 ...

Chemo and Radiation????

lovedbydoug66
  • By lovedbydoug66 · New reply 11:31 am
  • 2 replies
  • 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 ...

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

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · New reply 9:40 am
  • 5 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 · New reply 7:48 am
  • 8 replies
  • looking like slow day here wx nice 30 40s ...

90 days from transplant doctor visit

joyrmttx
  • By joyrmttx · New reply yesterday at 6:04 pm
  • 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 ...

Poooooop

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · New reply yesterday at 1:56 pm
  • 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 ...

Somebody PLEASE HELP!!! ={

pwrsrg77
  • By pwrsrg77 · New reply yesterday at 10:54 am
  • 81 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 ...

horoscope for today :)

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · New reply 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 ...

SO excited to share what I have found!

pwrsrg77
  • By pwrsrg77 · New reply November 6, 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 ...

:)

paaatriot101
  • By paaatriot101 · New reply November 6, 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 ...

Joe and his exciting week so far

shasha712
  • By shasha712 · New reply November 6, 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 ...

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

kjseal
  • By kjseal · New reply November 5, 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 ...

RENAL ANGIOLIPOMA ANYONE???....

sonia40
  • By sonia40 · New reply November 5, 2009
  • 10 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 ...

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 ...

Vitamins

robinw
  • By robinw · New reply November 5, 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 ...

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