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Don't know what to do already
- By Dolphinlady · New reply yesterday at 8:04 pm
- 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 yesterday at 4:04 pm
- 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 yesterday at 1:18 pm
- 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 ...
Changed my picture so you could read what my shirt says
- By Barb723 · New reply yesterday at 5:26 am
- 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 ...
Good Morning Levi and Wife
- By MaryRVF · New reply November 19, 2009
- 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 November 19, 2009
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
Uh Oh I am really Dying Soon
- By JudyV · New reply November 14, 2009
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 ...
Back on the road
- By yesshecan · New reply November 11, 2009
- 6 replies
- There was a moment of complete joy. Running with old friends. Warm sun burns through self consciosness as I re enter the group I left a year ago. People hug and comment. On my hair. On their pleasure ...
Has anyone heard of a drug called Vectamix
- By medium · New reply November 11, 2009
- 7 replies
- Hi all. Bob is still in hospital although physically he is feeling a bit better he is still very weak. The doctors have suggested trying a new drug called vectamix ( which I have googled )but cannot find ...
Condolonces for one of our friends Robert Spencer
- By medium · New reply November 11, 2009
- 5 replies
- I want to offer my condolonces to Dawn who's husband Robert Spencer passed away today. Dawn goes under the name Wife and has been a good friend to me and my Bob as they were both diagnosed at the same ...
- A Life Chaning Story - The Wooden Bowl
- By Shelter · New reply November 11, 2009
- 14 replies
- The Wooden Bowl I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now, a year from now. A frail old man went to live with his son, daughter-in-law, and ...
