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New website!
- By LizardmyOli · New reply November 4, 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 ...
Happy Halloween 2009? ... Stage IV NSCLC
- By kjseal · New reply November 3, 2009
- 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
- By Amy2012 · New reply November 3, 2009
- 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 ...
Need prayers for Brother Joe's scan results
- By shasha712 · New reply November 1, 2009
- 8 replies
- Friday, Joe went for his first Pet scan since taking 7 rounds of Chemo. We will find out the results on Tuesday. Thursday he will be taking his 8th round. They are planning on doing radiation too soon ...
Living a full life AFTER cancer
- By believer28 · New reply 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 ...
A CYST ON MY OVARY....
- By sonia40 · New reply November 1, 2009
- 13 replies
- Hello everybody.... for those wonderful people who are keeping up with my posts...(LOL)...im just wondering if anyone can claryify this confusing situation....i was diagnosed with CIN1/HPV...so back in ...
Back to reality
- By LizardmyOli · New reply November 1, 2009
- 1 reply
- It was about this time last year that my brain tumor symptoms really started hitting me full on with serious symptoms such as things that made me think I was riding the crazy train!! I was losing sleep ...
80 days from autologous stem cell transplant
- By joyrmttx · New reply November 1, 2009
- 5 replies
- It's hard to believe that I'm this far out from my transplant already. God is good! The toughest part is staying at home while my immune system is recovering. I can only get out when it's not crowded ...
Chasing Mets (metastasis)
- By gpawelski · New reply November 1, 2009
- 22 replies
- On most cancer message/discussion boards, one of the most common themes is that of "chasing mets" (metatasis). Cancer patients are chasing mets because of the wrong type of chemotherapeutic regimens for ...
so many views,so many choices with cancer
- By starletjean · New reply November 1, 2009
- 8 replies
- Well,where do I begin???? I guess I will begin with what I am learning in life in general,that is we have to and must do what is good for one's self.What may be good for one,could be wrong for others.Any ...
regarding waiting:)
- By paaatriot101 · New reply October 31, 2009
- 6 replies
- My Brother sent this to me, I find I like it and thought I would share THE ISOLATION CHAMBER "Be still and know that I am God...." Psalm 46:10 There is a time and place in our walk with God in which He ...
Silent Screaming
- By LizardmyOli · New reply October 31, 2009
- 11 replies
- I have been scheduling and getting labwork done for my upcoming Ulnar Nerve decompression surgery and have had to deal with the reality of my insurance that I thought is very good and has good coverage ...
it's all new to us
- By lovedbydoug66 · Posted October 30, 2009
- 0 replies
- a week ago today my partner was told that he has pancreatic cancer, we live in a small city in ontario canada and are going next week to Toronto to see a surgeron there to see if surgery is an option ...
OK, some good news then!
- By LizardmyOli · New reply October 30, 2009
- 5 replies
- I saw my infectious disease doctor today and he said my counts and stuff he looks at are doing very well and he did not expect them to go up that fast! He said that i do not need to see him anymore unless ...
communicating what you need
- By dleach · New reply October 29, 2009
- 4 replies
- I think the hardest thing to do is ask for specific help. I think when everyone asks "what can I do" we often say nothing or say don't worry about it. Why are we so shy to admit we may need someone to ...
Clinical trial carbo/gemzar/avastin
- By godshome · Posted October 29, 2009
- 0 replies
- I had my ct on monday--Tuesday got good news --No evidence of a recurrent or metastatic intra-abdominal malignancy is noted--The chemo makes me feel so bad I was just dreading the results of the scan--My ...
On edge and Waiting Does Not Help
- By paaatriot101 · New reply October 29, 2009
- 6 replies
- Man, so okay I mentioned in earlier post that the doctor at Winship has said I have not been officially staged yet? He said after the neck scan on Oct 29th, I would need to go in for a panendoscopy, because ...
Cool quote.........
- By kelsterlv · New reply October 28, 2009
- 4 replies
- Life isn't about weathering the storm, it's about dancing in the rain. A friend sent this to me, thought it was pretty cool ...
HOPE ANYONE CAN HELP ME...
- By sonia40 · New reply October 26, 2009
- 8 replies
- Hello all once again as i mentioned before i am scheduled for my app in december..(re partial nephrectomy)....i just have a few symptoms that im dealing with and thought which better place to ask than ...
Chemo and Colds
- By Amy2012 · New reply October 26, 2009
- 10 replies
- I am supposed to be going for my next chemo this week, and I am not sure if any of you have had this problem, but my daughter caught a terrible cold last night, high fever, coughing, and I just started ...
