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Archives for February 2016
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Overwhelmed
I have just found this board. I needed to find someone that understands how I feel. My husband was diagnosed in June 2015 with a benign anal condyloma, even though his surgeon and I knew I was more serious. After numerous surgeries and abcess, which all included biopsies he was finally diagnosed with anal cancer in…
Barely Hanging On
My husband has stage 4 head and neck cancer, he's had numerous radiation and chemo treatments over the last few years and recently completed another round of treatments. The man I married and loved and still love is gone. His cancer and pain have turned him into a hateful angry nasty person. He belittles me every chance he…
Young and feeling lost
I've been struggling to find the proper outlet for this... thank goodness a quick Google search brought me here and showed me there was a better place to cope than Facebook or Tumblr. My mother was diagnosed with cancer and was sent to a distant hospital where we don't have any family or friends. Our family decided I was…
Nearing the end?
My wife has had metastatic breast cancer in her bones for three years. I've read some posts from others where the cancer had gone to their bones. It's a very painful and debilitating disease. She's gone through 3 surgeries now to stabilize her large bones: right femur rod and pins, right humerus rod and pins, and most…
Helping to cope with isolation
My husband has stage 4 colon cancer. He was diagnosed in June just after a serious accident left him in a wheel chair with 2 broken feet. It took 6 weeks before they could start Chemo. It was too late to have surgery as the cancer spreads to his liver lymph nodes and bones. Now he is severely alergic to the 5FU and they…
Inept medical groups
Venting here, again! Have any of you had to deal with medical groups, particularly receptionists and lab personnell that were terrible?! My spouse had to have a CBC and differential drawn at a local lab with results faxed to her oncologist in another city. When she went in (She had a very low white count) she asked them to…
Lost husband taking care of his wife, kids, dogs, full-time job, and house
Hi everyone, just joined today and I am looking for a little guidance. My wife was diagnosed with stage 3A breast cancer in October 2015. She is 45 years old (now), has a terrible family history of other cancers, and is scared to death. She has been through two rounds of AC/T chemo so far and the tumor has shrunk quite a…