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Cancer Book Reccomendations and inspiration?
Hi everyone. Hoping that I can get some inspiration for some health book / cancer-related stories. I'm building a small collection for a friend who mentioned that she wants to read more about other people's stories. How they dealt with cancer and more importantly how they lived happy lives - kept active etc.... If anyone…
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Struggling with a new relationship and cancer
I am 46, in a same sex relationship with a woman who is almost 46. We have been dating about 11 months. 4 months ago she was diagnosed with stage 1 breast cancer and had a lumpectomy/sentinel node biopsy. Everything looks good on pathology and oncotyping and she has an excellent prognosis. She has been on tamoxifen for…
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Diets During Chemo and After.
Hi, We are new to this network and are looking for anyone who can advice us as to aspects related to diets or not for my wife. She was recently diagonosed (3 months back) with Carcinoma of Unknown primary with metastasis to the liver and spleen. Currently she has completed 3 rounds of chemo and her cancer seems to have…
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Grasping at Straws
So my mom was diagnosed with metastatic kidney cancer in April. It had already spread to her lower spine and some surrounding bones. She is single and has ZERO savings so she came to live with me and my husband. She did the radiation and maybe 4 chemo treatments before she just decided to stop and throw health food at it…
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moms final months
It's hard to know where to begin. I want to vent about my personal life because I'm full of anger and resentment and so much frustration, but it pales in comparison to what my mom is facing. I'm 27, my mom 64, my grandma 84. We all live together and drive each other crazy. My mom was diagnosed 3 years ago with stage 3…
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Angry Wife
There are 3 time frames in my life. 1. Prior to my wife being diagnosed with breast cancer. Prior to any visits to a clinic, my wife for years was an angry person. She slept in the basement (and the kids and I slept upstairs on the 2nd floor). She was angry, depressed, cold, moody, violent, extremely lazy and constantly…