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Will I Finally
did it. I got my first tatoo on Saturday and it wasn't as painful as I thought, and my pain threshold is NOT high. The only time it was really bothersome was when she would go over the same spot a few times. I got the Blue Colon Cancer Ribbon on my right shoulder with survivor on one of the ribbon arms. My husband was very…
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Friday Riddle Answer
RIDDLE: There's a body lying dead on a bed, and on the floor beside it is a pair of scissors. The scissors were instrumental in his death, yet there's no trace of blood. The body reveals no signs of any cuts or bruises. How could the person have been murdered with the pair of scissors? ANSWER: The scissors cut a hole in…
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Hypec surgery???
Hi Everyone, I was diagnosed in November of 08 with stage 4 colorectal cancer I've had two surgeries. One to debulk cancer in the periteneal area and one to do a bowel resection. I've since had a colostomy bag. I would like to know if anybody has considered the Hypec surgery? I had been cancer free since my surgeries until…
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ittapp UPDATE on Patti
This update was posted this afternoon on Prayers for Patti. Please continue the prayers.. all needed and appreciated! Patti is still in the hospital, doing better but still in pain from the procedure, scan and chemo this week if all goes as planned, will hopefully be home soon. Prayers for Patti group
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bad reaction to chemo and radiation
Hello All, Just wanted to know if anyone experienced what my mother is going through. She originally was diagnosed with rectal cancer due to her rectum being blocked. When they did surgery for a colostomy bag and took a biopsy of the tumor, the pathology came back that it was ovarian cancer. So she received chemo therapy…
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Hip/leg pain from radiation?
I know we've talked about this before, but any advice is appreciated. I've had (worsening) hip, butt, and upper leg (inner thighs) pain since about a month from end of radiation treatment. When I saw my radiation oncologist, it wasn't that bad. Now, it's much worse. It interferes with some Pilates positions/moves and it is…
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Kudzu
For those of you that don't know what kudzu is, good for you. For the rest of us in the south, it is a nightmare. It was introduced to the US in the early 20th century. It was considered an ornamental plant for the first few decades, then during the depression, FDR and the Dept of agriculture decided to plant it all over…
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MD Anderson-need referral
Anyone out there being treated at MD Anderson and can give us the name of your oncologist? My sister is struggling right now. I am not sure MD has any "new" answers but right now, she really needs help and we feel she is not getting a "whole" approach. She is in terrible pain, has trouble eating and keeping weight on and…
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Lizbiz's husband has joined under the name jonrwall
Thank you to everyone that posted their thoughts and feelings about my wife. Today it has been a week since she passed and the end was just so sudden and shocking. With the surgery she may have had 2-4 years. The side effects and fluid buildup in her body did not allow her body's immune system to work. She was in the…
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xeloda
Hey everybody, I've been through 3 rounds of folfox, folfiri + avastin, and have been on avastin for 9 months. I'm now stage 4 with mets to lungs. I don't want to do the pump anymore so I told my Onc I would do the pills(xeloda). I know the side effects of 5fu but was wondering whether the pills were easier or tougher than…
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results: Tumor resistant to folfox & folfiri
As you may know my husband did 6mo of chemo only to find out the cancer spread to his lung! He had surgery on march 9 and we had his live tumor cells sent to Weisenthal Cancer Center where they tested several chemo drugs. We just got the results. Resistent to oxi, 5fu, irinotecan, mitomycin, gemzar, plus many others!!…
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2nd update on chris
Thanks everyone for all your support.. Last night about 3 took a hard turn. Chris began swelling in his stomach and began throwing up. His white count has dropped low, they put a NG tube in him, a pick line for food and did a xray.. He now has a bowel obstruction. Not sure at this point what it even means. As I write this…
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adhesion pain??
HI everyone, hope someone can help me and provide some info. I had a resection in june with a ileostomy, ileostomy takedown in sept and had a bowel obstruction requiring surgery in jan. I went back to work a month ago, I work 12 hr shifts. I started having abdominal tenderness, blamming it on muscle use and increase in…
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Raw Food Lecture - And Pass the Plate....
I went to a Raw Food lecture in NYC the other night that was touted as "Hear Author Brenda Cobb's Inspiring Personal Story of Healing Cancer without surgery, chemotherapy or radiation and the relationship of high vibration energy and healing". They held it in a nice restaurant on the city over by the Flatiron Building. I…
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What's for dinner?
Brooks does this on Facebook every day. Thought I'd find out what YOU'RE having tonight. We had red peppers, asparagus, portabella mushrooms (sauteed in olive oil) and steamed shrimp over whole wheat pasta topped with a sauce made from the aspargus 'water', a spritz of lemon with 5 cloves of garlic and 1 tsp cornstarch. It…
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Hello--New Here
I am new here, so I guess I should introduce myself and start with my colon cancer story. I’m 59, married, no kids but 3 dogs, and a high school special education teacher. I’ve enjoyed training my dogs in agility (which I think I read that someone else here does?) but at the moment I’m not doing any training—I hope to get…
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Spring Break
Just wanted to let you know that our oldest son, Scott (39 in July) and our 7 year old grandson, Jackson, will be arriving either late Sunday night or Monday morning for a long (8 or 9 days) spring break. We've got Braves tickets and are going to climb Stone Mountain and spend the day at that park. Loads of fun things…
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things automagically happened
We just got back from a week at Disney (WDW). What a blast! We stayed at the Boardwalk Inn. Weather was perfect and the parks we picked every day had very few people. We stayed in Magic Kingdom till 2 am on Sunday night (the night we arrived). NO lines - totally cool. The BEST part? Well, I'll put it this way - I got a…
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Question about CEA
From whom did you guys found out what was your CEA before surgery? My primary physician does not have it in the pre-op lab ordered by the surgeon, do you think they could have done the test in the hospital just before surgery? if so, will the surgeon be the one to have the results in his records? if anyone could tell me…
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What a difference no aspirin has made
I have taken one full strength aspirin daily for years. I have juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and it has always helped to keep it in check. We have all read, daily aspirin folks have better outcomes so it made good sense to keep it up. Both my colon and primary doctor said as long as I was not having problems to keep it up.…
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Who is going??? to the Palooza
Just curious as to who might be going. I am excited getting to meet some of the great people I have been talking to for years now. I am so excited. Going to call tomorrow and reserve my room.. OKay roll call on you is going???
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Chris surgery udate
Hi everyone, I feel that i am finally settled down enough and chris pain is semi-under control enough to write. He went ahead with the double reversal on the 23rd. What was supposed to be a 3 hr surgery was a 7 hr surgery. The take down was a success but chris came close to bleeding out. Even though they stopped his…
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What size was your tumor?
In another topic, a couple of posts discussed tumor size, and that got me wondering what size tumors the rest of the people in the group had, and how much colon was removed. I’m stage IIA and the size of my tumor was 8.5 x 7.5 x 2.5 cm. The surgeon said it was the size of an orange. They took 20 cm of the ascending colon.…
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CT SCAN update..Need Advise
Dear Ones, Just heard from my doctor with the results of the scan I had on Monday. She said everything looks good except they found a new .9 m spot on my liver. Now, I have 3 cysts that have not changed in years. This one has not shown up on the past 6 CT scans but she had the radiologist go back further and he found a cut…
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Update - Surgery date set
My surgeon performed a laparoscopy, and the results have changed the surgery plan again. After the CT, MRI, PET and colonoscopy, showed such good results, we thought the surgery might not be very extensive. But during the laparoscopy, Dr. Shen found 5 mets in my peritoneal lining. They did not show up on any of the scans,…
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Financial Aid Funds - The Colorectal CareLine & Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF)
Just wondering if anyone has contacted these Financial Aid sources? Is it worth a letter to them? Colorectal CareLine Patient Advocate Foundation Program Address: Suite 101700 Thimble Shoals BoulevardNewport News, VA 23606 Telephone: 1-866-657-8634 E-mail: CCL@patientadvocate.org Web site: http://www.colorectalcareline.org…
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FREE housecleaning for chemo patients
A friend sent this email to me. I have not checked it out. FREE housecleaning for chemo patients Please pass this information on if you know of someone who could benefit. --------------------------------------- If you know any woman currently undergoing Chemo, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service…
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FREE housecleaning for chemo patients
A friend sent this to me but I have not checked it out. FREE housecleaning for chemo patients Please pass this information on if you know of someone who could benefit. ---------------------------------------If you know any woman currently undergoing Chemo, please pass the word to her that there is a cleaning service that…
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Chemo #24 - hopefully the last
Hi All, I'm sitting in the chemo room with **** right now as he gets his 24th and hopefully last chemo. He should have finished 10 days ago but his step father passed away and we flew to Boston to be with family. After that we flew to Kona and stayed in our friends' beautiful home for a few days. In the midst of all of…
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ct scans, how often
My husband finished chemo in November, had his first post ct scan in December and was said to be NED, great. We haven't seen his onc since, but are scheduled for 4/13. Lab work will be done, does this mean a CEA blood work also? Do you think he will be scheduled for another Ct scan, if not is it wrong for me to suggest…