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Don't know what to do already
- By Dolphinlady · New reply 8:04 pm
- Journal · 9 replies
- I finished my WBR on 9/9/09. I spent that week and the next two days weaning off the steroids which were awful. I gained 20 pounds on them and was bouncing off the walls. Since them I've steadily decline ...
Dancing on the abyss
- By yesshecan · New reply 4:04 pm
- Journal · 33 replies
- Silent home. Cat sleeps. Dog sleeps. Cancer sleeps. PET scan came back with NED. Yet I am aware, so keenly aware that cancer can sleep and hide and edge forward when it choses. I dance on the abyss. Stare ...
update
- By curlee · New reply 1:18 pm
- Journal · 1 reply
- hi cancer babes after having had a virus and just being stuck home {which i enjoy but after a while get stir crazy}, john and i got swine flu shots in prep for a cruise. haven't seen my daughter here[sick ...
EARLY Act
- By GregDennis · New reply 9:10 am
- Discussion in Breast cancer · 8 replies
- The EARLY Act would provide federal funding to educate doctors and young women (those 45 and under) about breast health and breast cancer. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, herself ...
Changed my picture so you could read what my shirt says
- By Barb723 · New reply 5:26 am
- Journal · 5 replies
- Hi everyone, To get my mind off of things, I have been making shirts and sweat jackets that say "cancer Sucks" but in a pretty glittery kind of way. If you click to my profile you can click on photo so ...
Smokers....
- By search10 · New reply 12:27 am
- Discussion in Lung cancer · 2 replies
- Hey all, I wanted to say hi and see what’s going on with everyone. Let me just say that I was a smoker for seven years and not a day goes by now that I don’t wish I never picked up a cigarette. I’m ...
need support please
- By nancywoo · New reply yesterday at 12:10 pm
- Discussion in Colon cancer · 4 replies
- I posted this under another group - sorry if I messed up. Hi everyone. I was diagnosed with colon cancer in April 09, have had large tumor removed and colon resection. Two months after surgery (last week ...
Good Morning Levi and Wife
- By MaryRVF · New reply yesterday at 9:41 am
- Journal · 4 replies
- Good Morning Levi and Wife! Haven't seen a post yet this morning. I do hope you both are well this morning. We miss you! mary ...
Acceptance
- By formy3 · New reply yesterday at 12:02 am
- Journal · 8 replies
- Well at last im accepting the fact that I have throat cancer at the time it is still hard to beleive that it is there inside my body invading and doing as it pleases , at first I was angry ,I didnt understand ...
Lost your health insurance? Got Breast Cancer? Read this!
- By Pam-Pam · New reply November 18, 2009
- Journal · 20 replies
- This is my story: I had lost my insurance when our business collapsed. We had spent all our savings trying to keep the business afloat. We had assets, our home was paid for, etc, so we didn't qualify ...
A Lazy Susan for your side table or nightstand
- By JudyV · New reply November 18, 2009
- Journal · 18 replies
- I was telling someone about this little wonder, and decided to share it more widely by making a journal entry out of it. I recently recited what I keep on the table by my "seat" in the den, the place ...
Mother
- By LaGata · New reply November 16, 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 ...
Facing Pancreatic Cancer
- By ESKCSG · Posted November 16, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Prominent oncologist and fearless pancreatic cancer patient offer inspiration in recognition of pancreatic cancer awareness month. Until the recent spike of high-profile pancreatic cancer cases among ...
what are sleepy cells?
- By momsusan · Posted November 16, 2009
- Discussion in Ovarian cancer · 0 replies
- I am trying to get information about ovarian cancer. My mother was diagnosed with stage four ovarian cancer. she had surgery and chemo. they told her she was cancer free and a survivor. she was diagnosed ...
Uh Oh I am really Dying Soon
- By JudyV · New reply November 14, 2009
- Journal · 87 replies
- Every now and then it hits. It hit tonight, big time. I wanted to call someone, but who do you call to say something like that? Who would understand how this realization can just suddenly flood over me ...
Bobs upward battle!
- By medium · New reply November 14, 2009
- Journal · 9 replies
- Hi all firstly thank you to all who responded about my query on vectamix (which turned out to be Vectibix) i found out a lot of information on it which was very helpful when we met with the oncologist ...
Is It Real? Can it be?
- By JudyV · New reply November 13, 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 ...
Take Charge!
- By Ovacom06 · New reply November 13, 2009
- Journal · 1 reply
- What I have realized through this experience is that we as women need to take charge of our own health care. Just because a physician tells you, does not mean you should accept it as gospel if you still ...
A wonderful idea from the mind of a little girl
- By dleach · New reply November 12, 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 ...
LEEP!
- By miss_kate · New reply November 12, 2009
- Journal · 1 reply
- I had my LEEP done this morning. Pre-op jitters were definitely alleviated by the 5 mg of Valium I took about two hours beforehand. My anxiety peaked during the 10 or so minutes my SO and I spent in the ...
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