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- By curlee · Posted 8:46 am
- 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 ...
Don't know what to do already
- By Dolphinlady · Posted yesterday at 3:44 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 ...
Changed my picture so you could read what my shirt says
- By Barb723 · Posted November 18, 2009
- 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 ...
Good Morning Levi and Wife
- By MaryRVF · Posted November 18, 2009
- 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 ...
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 ...
Acceptance
- By formy3 · Posted November 14, 2009
- 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 ...
A Lazy Susan for your side table or nightstand
- By JudyV · Posted November 13, 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 ...
Bobs upward battle!
- By medium · Posted November 12, 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 ...
Take Charge!
- By Ovacom06 · Posted November 11, 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 · Posted November 10, 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 ...
Mother
- By LaGata · Posted November 10, 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 ...
Has anyone heard of a drug called Vectamix
- By medium · Posted November 10, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Back on the road
- By yesshecan · Posted November 9, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Webcast: The Art of Survivorship with Wendy Harpham
- By bedep · Posted November 9, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Webcast: The Art of Survivorship with Wendy Harpham Wed., 11/11/09, 8:00 pm EST Listen live or later http://bit.ly/4vYgWf Diagnosed with follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1990, Dr. Wendy Harpham has ...
TheraSphere Treatment
- By clkempf · Posted November 9, 2009
- Journal · 0 replies
- Going to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota for TheraSphere treatment to TRY to shrink my 6.7cm tumor in my liver....Has anyone else had this treatment and what were ar are your results??? This is the first major ...
Is It Real? Can it be?
- By JudyV · Posted November 8, 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 ...
Condolonces for one of our friends Robert Spencer
- By medium · Posted November 8, 2009
- Journal · 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 ...
Lost your health insurance? Got Breast Cancer? Read this!
- By Pam-Pam · Posted November 8, 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 ...
Finally Getting Better After a Week!
- By Barb723 · Posted November 7, 2009
- Journal · 11 replies
- Hello everyone, I have not been on lately but I have been trying to keep up with everyone. I received my chemo last wed. I also got my vit.B12 shot and the flu shot. Everything was going ok until Sunday ...
