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What, me worry?
How are you coping with the different emotional issues relating to your treatment and diagnosis?
I thought Wed. 11/4 was the end of my life...
- By Dodie1 · Posted 8:45 pm
- 0 replies
- After having 14 chemo treatments with the same drug (Carbo), Wednesday my body decided that it wanted to have a severe allergic reaction. I was trying to be brave and tough and not say anything about ...
Just need to vent....
- By kmeha · New reply yesterday at 10:33 am
- 3 replies
- So i have to vent about it all! I got finally good news my insurance has decided to cover my surgery and the chemo and the port surgery Finally. They claimed it was a prexisiting condition. Also last ...
Perfect Love Casts Out Fear -
- By Shelter · New reply November 3, 2009
- 7 replies
- Perfect Love Casts Out Fear - NEW! by Joyce Meyer ok I pasted this here- but it blessed me I am right in teh midst of this very thing & POOF I get email !!!!!! thank you Lord.... Do you suffer from fear ...
getting sicer with each chemo
- By loveoneanother · New reply October 31, 2009
- 21 replies
- Please help me ladies. I just finished 3rd chemo of 6 with carbo only. this is a reaccuring 3 c Ovarian cancer. the problem is yesturday I was sick with constipation so I took stool softner and senna ...
No CAT scan for 6 mos maybe more
- By Ansophie · New reply October 28, 2009
- 14 replies
- I am 6 mos post chemo for III c PPC. Chemo went well and my CA125 is down to 1 from 32,obviously not a good marker for me. My debulking in Jan 2009 was optimal at Mass General Hosp and I had a clean CAT ...
Dog at my Feet, Kitten on my Shoulder, Surgery Behind Me!
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply October 28, 2009
- 16 replies
- To All my OVCA Friends, Home from the hospital! FINALLY! After a week being 'held hostage' LOL I'm finally home! I had a tennis ball sized tumor removed. It was attached to my bowel so the doctor also ...
The Characters of Cancer (Giggle)!!!!!
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply October 26, 2009
- 14 replies
- The following are TRUE stories! The names have been changed to protect the innocent? LOL The first character I met at chemo is an elderly woman who comes in occasionally and Blows the harmonica like nobody's ...
Insensitivity to Cancer Patients
- By ohmama123 · New reply October 26, 2009
- 37 replies
- I was at the DMV today as my license expired. When I went up to the desk the woman told me I needed to take off my scarf for the picture, and I told her I could not for medical reasons and I would like ...
Coffee
- By Ell · New reply October 23, 2009
- 17 replies
- Hi All, Just wondering, is coffee bad for us? I love to have a cup in the morning and sometimes two. Do you think it is unhealthy or will contribute to a recurrance? I'm doing my best to eat well, but ...
Dog at My Feet, Kitten on My Shoulder, Surgery on Tuesday
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply October 21, 2009
- 13 replies
- Dog at My Feet, Kitten on my Shoulder, Surgery on Tuesday I wonder if my critters know something I don't know. Hmm... Maggie Mae (my little girl for years now my 'Old Lady') has been sticking pretty close ...
Anxious after mammogram
- By christinem1968 · New reply October 20, 2009
- 6 replies
- Its been a while since I've felt this anxious. I had my 1st mammogram last Tuesday. Wasn't at all what I thought it would. It was a little uncomfortable. However- the technician told me that the radiologist ...
Discount Prescription Card
- By kibbitzqueen · Posted October 18, 2009
- 0 replies
- If you don't have any prescription insurance, you can use this card for discounts. The website is a LITTLE cumbersome with clicking 'NO' to all the offers but it's only about 3 pages.. perhaps 30 'No's ...
FREE Headwrap! That's RIGHT!
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply October 18, 2009
- 6 replies
- My girlfriend told me about this website where HER friend (who had cancer) Got a free head wrap or scarf. I inquired as to if this was the case and received the following email! Laurie said 'Promote it ...
Symptoms?
- By KathleenO · New reply October 17, 2009
- 13 replies
- I wondered if some of you would be so kind to share how you were diagnosed? I read that most often women are diagnosed with ovarian cancer only by laparoscopy. Does this mean it often won't show anything ...
Suspicious Cyst
- By fox · New reply October 17, 2009
- 21 replies
- Hi, I'm new to the group and just heard thursday that I have a 3.2mm cyst on my left ovary. I was so stunned (and not at all knowledgable) so I don't even know yet if its simple or complex or what. But ...
Another Surgery
- By kibbitzqueen · New reply October 15, 2009
- 29 replies
- ON October 20th I will be having yet another surgery to remove cancer from my abdomen. The Doctor will remove the cancer and basically rinse me out like a Thanksgiving turkey, then check everything to ...
Weird crazy dreams on treatment
- By Cheryl4Teal · New reply October 10, 2009
- 14 replies
- Do any of you have weird crazy dreams while your being treated. Im being treated on Taxol and every night it seems its weirder and weirder, Im either boating in a wild ocean with lots of colors, going ...
Unusual Follow-up?
- By Sue_Shustar · New reply October 9, 2009
- 11 replies
- I had surgery in July 09 and was diagnosed with Stage 1C Clear Cell Carcinoma. Just prior to surgery, my CA-125 was 42. I received my first chemo Carbo/Taxol while I was still in the hospital and have ...
Vaccine Study and Increase in ca125
- By koh847 · New reply October 8, 2009
- 9 replies
- Hi everyone. Recap for me...diagnosed last Nov., 2c, finished chemo April of this year. Ca 125 was 113 before surgery and dropped to 6.4 after 1st chemo. Since then it has been between 4 and 7. Then 4 ...
How do you know?
- By lifeisgrand · New reply October 8, 2009
- 21 replies
- I have stage 3b high-grade serous papillary adenocarcinoma diagnosed in Feb 09. I have a great gyn/onc who felt that all visible disease was gone following the surgery. We had planned IV/IP 6 cycles but ...
