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Ex's last chemo course - Topotecan
- By Ex_turned_Caregiver · Posted November 24, 2009
- 11 replies
- This is a quick post. Got shittado, if you know what I mean. Today we met with Ex's Oncologist, and he has decided to do an indefinite number of weeks (10, at least) on a once weekly dose of Topotecan ...
Starting Our Journey
- By Martifai · Posted November 24, 2009
- 8 replies
- First appt. with an onconlogist today; hubby and I a little disappointed...particularly his comment to my husband,"you're gonna die, my job is to make it a little easier". What a turn-off...of course ...
trying day
- By bellabell · Posted November 24, 2009
- 6 replies
- Dad slept until 12pm today (he went to bed at 10pm). Woke up confused and incoherent. Shuffling across the house. He won't keep his oxygen on-and keeps saying "I'm fine-just tired). ARG!!!!! Then says ...
Good Things From Bad
- By bobsdoe · Posted November 24, 2009
- 8 replies
- So.....I've brought you all up to date on my months of misfortune. Woven in and out of the destruction wrought upon me and my family because of my husbands addiction...is the hand of God bringing rest ...
meeting with the devil.....or social worker..whatever you want to call her
- By mizzdanadyme · Posted November 24, 2009
- 15 replies
- Today i met with my dad social worker (from hospice) and she was a total pain in the ass. I understand what my dad is going through-but to meet with me before thanksgiving and talk about funeral arrangement ...
trouble swallowing after radition
- By Linnie156 · Posted 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 ...
Up for Air ~ November 2009
- By bobsdoe · Posted November 24, 2009
- 7 replies
- Many probably thought Id fallen off the end of the earth somewhere. It has felt like that at times. But regardless of what has been thrown at me, I am still here and so is my dad who is, afterall, the ...
Bobs new treatment has started at last.
- By medium · Posted 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 ...
Tumor
- By Billster · Posted 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 ...
Monday evening
- By Marg · Posted November 23, 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 ...
Thinking about Sue
- By Mssumbuddy · Posted November 23, 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 ...
mentally exhausted
- By kareinone · Posted November 23, 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 ...
Upper arm and shoulder pain
- By dallas80 · Posted November 23, 2009
- 14 replies
- Hi, Here I am again looking for information. My husband has small cell cancer extensive stage. In the past week he has developed a lot of pain in his upper left arm. It now generates into his neck and ...
nursing home we go....and a broken heart daughter
- By mizzdanadyme · Posted November 23, 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 ...
Update on last CT. Not good news :(
- By doing-ok · Posted November 22, 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 ...
Rude user blows in like a hurricane... TWICE! Now gone with the wind?
- By Ex_turned_Caregiver · Posted November 22, 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 ...
Do not be stupid like I was as I didn't even know who was my doctor. RUN
- By dianeS · Posted November 22, 2009
- 7 replies
- I was seeing this new Internist for the first time(I do not like that there just isn't a "Family" Doctor,we only have specialist to see sometimes just unbelievable thing, that cost 20%more). I to this ...
Will this destroy us all?
- By Toosh · Posted November 21, 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 ...
Today is going to be better
- By kareinone · Posted November 21, 2009
- 9 replies
- Hi everyone after some sleep and reasoning and all the support from everyone on here I feel better. I have a better outlook and can face this day and be proud that I have another to face and spend with ...
Happy Saturday
- By Marg · Posted November 21, 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 ...