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Brain Cancer
Archives for January 2008
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Resources for my sister Suzy
My sister is in need of any resources for living communities, groups, activities, assistance in Maine. She has partial blindness, memory issues. She has been in remission for a very long time (diagnosed and treated at 19, she is now 38). She isn't able to work and is desperately lonely. Myself and my family just don't know…
new survivor
Hi, I started this by reading some of your discussions. You have me in tears. I was diagnosed in December. Found the lump myself on the 5th. Had ultrasound and mamo on the 6th. Biopsy on the 12th and bad news on the 14th. Met with surgeon the following tuesday and mri on thursday. The mri showed 7cm of tissue and the left…
glioblastoma multiforme
July 28, 2007 is when I took my dad to the hospitial because we had thought that he had a stroke. He was having weakness on the left side of his body and memory loss. The ER docs did a cat scan and they found the tumor. Aug 3, 2007 they operated on him and were only able to remove the top half of it and they told me he had…
Prayers will help.
My dad has been diagnosed recently with brain cancer. It all began with a pretty large bump in his head that started showing on Oct. 2006. We all thought that it wasn't at all serious since my dad was ok at that time and wasn't complaining. It all got serious when blood started to flow from my dad's head. We had it…
confusion
My husband had his oligodendroglioma tumor removed in Sept.06& had 33 radiation treatments. Then it came back & he has now had it surgically removed again (sept. 07). This surgery recovery has been much more difficult & one of the biggest problems is his confusion. He often does not know where he is. I can point things out…