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Treatments start tomorrow
- By Stuckdh · Posted November 11, 2009
- Journal · 22 replies
- Well tomorrow I start my treatments. I am not sure how I feel overall. There is the feeling of finally moving forward and also that feeling of optimism. I know it will work and be a journey. I also know ...
Recal Cancer
- By nate8359 · Posted November 11, 2009
- Discussion in Getting a diagnosis · 1 reply
- I am afraid. To go and see if by chance if I could have by chance Recal Cancer. I have bleeding going on and pressure most of the time there and constipation along with it and a lot of change in the stools ...
HAVING A LARPROSCOPY/CYSTOSCOPY ON FRIDAY...
- By sonia40 · Posted November 11, 2009
- Journal · 7 replies
- Hello to all the wonderful people who have been following my posts....as you all know i am awaiting surgery for a partial nephrectomy and a gallbladder removal.....but i have also a few gyno problems ...
A wonderful idea from the mind of a little girl
- By dleach · Posted November 10, 2009
- Journal · 4 replies
- Watch this story about an amazing little girl who let the world know how she felt about them. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/CancerPreve ntionAndTreatment/child-brain-tumor-leav es-notes-family-death/story?id=8998612 ...
Living With Advanced Lung Cancer
- By ESKCSG · Posted November 10, 2009
- Journal · 7 replies
Mother
- By LaGata · Posted November 10, 2009
- Journal · 19 replies
- My mother passed away ( A euphamism I've learned to deal with.) on October 30th, shortly after midnight. The funeral was on November 3rd. The cancer that caused her death was not breast cancer, it was ...
Woke up today!!
- By LizardmyOli · Posted November 9, 2009
- Journal · 5 replies
- Felt like I was in someone elses house for a few minutes! It is crazy to wake up that way, to not know where you will wake up? Crazy siezures. I was hanging my lower body off the side of the bed, bulldog ...
Weird Dream
- By paaatriot101 · Posted November 9, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- Okay I have not dreamed in quite some time (Most likely from lack of attaining a dream stage level of restful sleep for months). but I had two little ones in one night now. First one was odd, but unclear ...
Back on the road
- By yesshecan · Posted November 9, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- There was a moment of complete joy. Running with old friends. Warm sun burns through self consciosness as I re enter the group I left a year ago. People hug and comment. On my hair. On their pleasure ...
Is it OK that an Oncologist uses his clinics for political propaganda?
- By Umbrellaman · Posted November 9, 2009
- Discussion in Survivor stories · 4 replies
- Thursday, October 8, 2009 while awaiting cancer treatment at Florida Cancer Specialist in Cape Coral, Florida, among the scattered periodicals and outdated magazines, was a flyer with a bold headline ...
Cancer Care Debate
- By Umbrellaman · Posted November 9, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Thursday, October 8, 2009 while awaiting cancer treatment at Florida Cancer Specialist in Cape Coral, Florida, among the scattered periodicals and outdated magazines, was a flyer with a bold headline ...
Where have you gone Walter Cronkite?
- By Umbrellaman · Posted November 9, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Thursday, October 8, 2009 while awaiting cancer treatment at Florida Cancer Specialist in Cape Coral, Florida, among the scattered periodicals and outdated magazines, was a flyer with a bold headline ...
Ulnar nerve decompression
- By LizardmyOli · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 8 replies
- Had the surgery last friday, in and out kind of thing. So far all is well and I can feelmy three fingers on my left hand now!!! If all stays as planned, March should be my last surgery to put my skull ...
Is It Real? Can it be?
- By JudyV · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 28 replies
- This strange life I am living now ... is it real? Who could have imagined this. I am 66. All my young years, thinking of my senior years would have put me on a cruise ship, living in a condo in Florida ...
Bisphenol A (BPA)
- By LAsky26 · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Interesting info. about the chemical BPA. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinio n/08kristof.html?emc=eta1 Received from my cancer support group. As with any article, its passed on for your own determination ...
God took my hero home
- By wife · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 39 replies
- I lost the other half of my heart this morning. He fought until the very end ...
Starting a journey
- By Stuckdh · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 22 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 ...
Clinical trials
- By DavidZ · Posted November 8, 2009
- Discussion in Colon cancer · 1 reply
- Does anyone have thoughts about participating in stage 1 clinical trials? Lesions in my liver are no longer responding to standard chemo treatments, and my oncologist is now suggesting I participate in ...
Chemo and Radiation????
- By lovedbydoug66 · Posted November 7, 2009
- Journal · 4 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 ...
Looking for someone been there done that throat cancer, rads, chemo
- By kevinsspot · Posted November 7, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
