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Archives for July 2017

Keeping Hope, Staying Realistic
Hello all, I am a new member and already reading these posts has been so healing. It's nice to know that there are people who are experiencing something similar to myself. I have a great support system, but it seems like people don't really understand unless cancer has happened to someone they love. My mom was diagnosed…
Feeling Isolatated & Misunderstood
Hey everyone. This is my first post to the discussion board but have been reading posts since my wife was diagnosed in October 2016. My 26 year old wife and I (31) got married in September 2016 and about 4 weeks after our marriage she was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer that had spread to the liver. About a month…
I am checking in on y'all.. how are YOU ?
my friends all tell me to take time for "me" .. which I do.. sometimes I feel like I take too much for me but I am trying to keep some sort of pre C normalcy as to how we lived before the DX. I feel guilty sometimes but have to shake it off. It's hard to figure out what is right or wrong (if that's even the case) anyways,…
Stage 4 & not the woman I married anymore
Omg what is going on? Married 24 years,the last three have been tough. Midlife crisis? Fighting? Then she was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer only theee weeks ago. Inoperable, mets to liver, lungs, spine,adrenal glands and 9 inch tumor in her chest that's strangling her bronchial tubes were getting radiochemo but…
How to approach school
Hello, My mother was just diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma and will possibly need a Stem Cell transplant sometime during October/November. Of course I will want to be there with her as much as possible, especially because my father has a full time job and will not be able to be there as much as he would like. I was…
Just starting---too scared to ask
My husband was just diagnosed, Prostate cancer, stage 4 with bone mets all over. Lupron is working together with blood transfusions, but with low kidney function, we'll be adding procrit this week. Too far gone --- with bad kidneys, chemo and radiation aren't options. However, right now, he feels to good to be dying. With…
At breaking point caregiving w/full time job
My partner was diagnosed with State IV non-smoker's NSCLC in fall of 2015 - we have been together since 2013, he is 42 and I am 32. He has been receiving gene targeted therapies and radiation as treatments, most recently whole brain radiation for some brain mets. He is tolerating the treatments fairly well other than some…
Awaiting my own Biopsy results
I seriously don't know if I can make it until Thursday to find out the results of my biopsy, this is going to be a very long week. I lost my first husband to Liver Cancer and am currently caring for my Husband of 4 years who has battled Bladder Cancer for the last 2years. He entered Hospice just 3 weeks ago. Me being the…
I am not the strong one.
This is my second round of becoming the caregiver. The first round was May, 2016 when my husband was diagnosed with kidney cancer. He had cryoablation (froze the tumor) at that time and he was sick for awhile, but it "wasn't that bad". In his followup the end of June, 2017 we discovered the tumor has regrown and the cancer…
New to forum...daughter has breast cancer

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