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Need prayers for Brother Joe's scan results
- By shasha712 · Posted November 1, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Back to reality
- By LizardmyOli · Posted October 31, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Happy Halloween 2009? ... Stage IV NSCLC
- By kjseal · Posted October 31, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
regarding waiting:)
- By paaatriot101 · Posted October 30, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
it's all new to us
- By lovedbydoug66 · Posted October 30, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Looking for help & Support
- By Tammy75 · Posted October 30, 2009
- Discussion in Pancreatic cancer · 1 reply
- My father-in-law has just been diagnosed with terminal Pancreatic IV cancer. He is due to have more tests to see how far it has really spread in the coming week. I strongly feel lost on how to help and ...
OK, some good news then!
- By LizardmyOli · Posted October 29, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Somebody PLEASE HELP!!! ={
- By pwrsrg77 · Posted October 29, 2009
- Journal · 83 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 ...
Clinical trial carbo/gemzar/avastin
- By godshome · Posted October 29, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Inspire members featured
- By Brian · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 29 replies
- Today Massachusetts General Hospital's Proto Magazine published a wonderful profile of nine Inspire members. Each of these stories underscores what we all know to be true -- that Inspire is a special ...
Kidney Cancer Support Groups in NC & SC - USA
- By Mickeral · Posted October 28, 2009
- Journal · 6 replies
- For those affected by Kidney Cancer (Renal Cell Carcinoma) -- there are many great developments that have occurred this year. As a 12-year survivor, I will be glad to pass along information to those who ...
so many views,so many choices with cancer
- By starletjean · Posted October 27, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Silent Screaming
- By LizardmyOli · Posted October 27, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
RENAL ANGIOLIPOMA ANYONE???....
- By sonia40 · Posted October 26, 2009
- Journal · 12 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 ...
Patience
- By Ovacom06 · Posted October 26, 2009
- Journal · 14 replies
- While going through my cancer battle I came to the realization that there are three types of people who battle cancer: 1. The person who throws up his or her hands and gives up. 2. The person who digs ...
On edge and Waiting Does Not Help
- By paaatriot101 · Posted October 26, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
80 days from autologous stem cell transplant
- By joyrmttx · Posted October 26, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Cool quote.........
- By kelsterlv · Posted October 26, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Chemo and Colds
- By Amy2012 · Posted October 25, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
A Hair Raising Event
- By Amy2012 · Posted October 25, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
