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It's been a year and I'm still falling apart
Apologies for the long backround here and thank you in advance if you read it all. My Mother was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer (spread throughout her liver) in November of 2017. Rather than a "normal" diagnosis after colonoscopy results, it was a week's worth of trauma. After a major bleed in September and her…
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Day Trip or Me Time Ideas and Suggestions
In 2014 my wife and I moved to our new house we had just built. Before we had unpacked she suffered a major stroke that left her totally disabled. Now spring ahead to 2017 and she was diagnosed with esophageal cancer. We are just living a day at a time but Im burnt out. Between a full-time job and being the primary…
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I’m new
In July my husband found out he had lung cancer. We were devastated. In August he had a small lung wedge resection because they needed a better biopsy. A pleural catheter was put in to keep the fluid from building up And also on oxygen 24/7 at home. It turns out he has a very rare cancer, arcinic cell carcinoma of the…