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trouble swallowing after radition
- By Linnie156 · New reply November 24, 2009
- 3 replies
- My husband had radition to his spine. His Lung cancer had spread to there. The radition had hit his esophagus . He is having troube swallowing and feels like he is choking. It has been around 5 months ...
Monday evening
- By Marg · New reply November 24, 2009
- 9 replies
- It has been a really good day. Mike woke up at 5:45 and said he felt great and wanted to get up and have coffee with me. That hasn't happened for weeks. His brother and mother came over and visited for ...
Tumor
- By Billster · New reply November 24, 2009
- 5 replies
- I had a Thoractomy and Lobectomy of the right lung on 7/24/08 for a large tumor about 14 by 8 inches etc. The size of a football, they tell me. They had to remove a rib and then form the remaining ribs ...
Walking the walk through hell alone
- By kareinone · New reply November 24, 2009
- 27 replies
- Today has been pure hell. My mom went to the cancer doctor. Got the expected news. She has Metastatic adenocarcinoma of the lungs stage 3b. They are thinking that it has metasias to other parts of her ...
nursing home we go....and a broken heart daughter
- By mizzdanadyme · New reply November 24, 2009
- 7 replies
- my heart is so broken. Friday we had to put my dad in a nursing home to recieve 24 hour care. The hospice nurse is giving us less them three months. His cancer is in his liver big time and his memory ...
Ex Brain Radiation ends at 13: He's had enough
- By Ex_turned_Caregiver · New reply November 24, 2009
- 32 replies
- Oh, what a night. He (we) were up and down all night last night. He was weak, unstable, barfy, hot, cold, drooly, and gurgling. It was downright scary. And frustrating. I forgot what sleep deprivation ...
Bobs new treatment has started at last.
- By medium · New reply November 24, 2009
- 1 reply
- Hi all. First of all Happy Thanksgiving to one and all. I am happy to say that at last Bobby has started his new treatment. Vectibix(targeted chemo) and eurbotox (tumor shrinking drug for neck) He has ...
mentally exhausted
- By kareinone · New reply November 24, 2009
- 6 replies
- well I have been going since about 3:30 this morning. The phone rang and my heart almost stopped. My mind was screaming who the crap calls at this time of morning. The thought goes straight to mama is ...
Update on last CT. Not good news :(
- By doing-ok · New reply November 24, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hi, I've been a little down after CT on Nov 17th review with my Doctor at Moffitt. I knew I had been a little more winded lately but I was quite surprised when he said that I have "obstructive pneumonia ...
Thinking about Sue
- By Mssumbuddy · New reply November 24, 2009
- 3 replies
- Yesterday my sister left with confidence, (after finding out she still has part of the tumor left in the brain), for Cancer Tx Centers of America. She said it is pretty nice there...but the food is "hospital ...
Happy Saturday
- By Marg · New reply November 23, 2009
- 7 replies
- It's a sunny day in central Illinois. Mike had chemo yesterday, Taxol. I looked over at him and had had red splotches on his cheek. I got a nurses attention and she came and looked. They stopped the Taxol ...
Neuropathy in Feet
- By bdecka · New reply November 23, 2009
- 53 replies
- Would you please let me know of any suggestions or help that you have received with regard to feet hurting at night which I assume is Neuropathy from the chemo that my sister received after ovarian cancer ...
What is the EX paying you to stay with him?
- By Ex_turned_Caregiver · New reply November 23, 2009
- 39 replies
- Before it and a few other caustic posts were deleted from my journal, an angry poster wrote, "What is the Ex paying you to stay with him?" (I swear, she wrote this!) I had to laugh. What is The Ex paying ...
Will this destroy us all?
- By Toosh · New reply November 23, 2009
- 10 replies
- Briefly, I was the one who asked how to get through this tough time with my father entering Hospice. The doctor said that he could live up to 18 to 24 months with his slow growing cancer. Well, he made ...
Rude user blows in like a hurricane... TWICE! Now gone with the wind?
- By Ex_turned_Caregiver · New reply November 23, 2009
- 20 replies
- The first day s/he joined INSPIRE.COM with one name, but s/he quickly tarnished that one-day-old moniker with users *and* board monitors, and s/he dropped it. Then, (apparently) s/he returned yesterday ...
too hard
- By -T- · New reply November 22, 2009
- 28 replies
- early this morning around 2am my husband harvey started having trouble breathing. i called the ambulance and he was taken to hospital. they kept him going till our eldest could make the 2 hour trip to ...
Bottoms of Feet Hurt - especially the Heel
- By Peggy59 · New reply November 22, 2009
- 41 replies
- I've had a new development in the last couple of months in that the bottom of my feet hurt, especially the left heel. I brought it up with my apt with my rheumatologist in October and he said I may need ...
Tarceva
- By Cackie · New reply November 22, 2009
- 6 replies
- My Best Friend has been NED for two years now, thanks to Tarceva!! I am so happy!! It seems to be a wonder drug for so many of you. I have been hearing stories about people living much longer with much ...
So goes the fight...
- By brokenarrow · New reply November 22, 2009
- 7 replies
- So... I guess what I'm doing now is keeping the stuff from returning. I'm not real clear on what my chances are of that. It's my plan that I keep my body as an undesirable environment for cancerous development ...
Saying Good Bye To Mom.
- By lucy56 · New reply November 22, 2009
- 9 replies
- We layed mom to rest today , we are the last three of her children and lm the oldest now we all knew it was coming but oh how hard this is, mom didn,t die of cancer but she lost two son's to it she was ...