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was/am a caregiver and now a patient/survivor...
6 Years ago one of my younger sisters was diagnosed with a germ cell ovarian cancer. Her and I were living together so it was just natural for me to take care of her. Over the following 5 years she was in and out of the hospital with surgery after surgery due to recurring cysts causing pain leading to an eventual total…
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It's Aimee again...my mom lost her battle on Monday
Hi Again Everyone, I just wanted to let you all know that my mom passed away on Monday afternoon. I was able to be with her, holding her hand. It ended up just being me and her along with my aunt who held me while I held my mom. It was an awful experience, one in which I will never get out of my head. When I saw her take…
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Scared
Hi Saturday morning I woke up with a rash on my hand and nose and a red itchy lump on my neck right around where the lymphoma was. My last radiation treatment was October 31. I am really scared that the cancer has come back. Right now the dr is treating topically (if that is the right word) with ointment and benadryl.…
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Anyone out there with stage 4 colon cancer / went to the lung?
please let me know , my husband has stage 4 cancer and we can find anymore out there to talk with and who is surviving .... Help . thanks
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Kids and cancer- deadly combo?
I have posted a few times on family issues and am now in a very upsetting situation. I love my kids dearly and would do anything on Earth for them, but I'm at the end of my rope with my daughter right now and don't know what to do anymore.I hope one of you has some advice that I can use to get through current situation;…
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Oh oh, it's New Year's resolution time again !!
Don't throw something at the computer screen because I brought up resolutions but hey, someone had to do it, right? lol. I'll go first, since I am here anywho, lol. I think this year I am going to try and take Rick's advice (Terato) and try not to expect things as much as I do from others, especially friends and family. I…
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It's Aimee again, just updating
Hi Everyone, Well first I'd like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas. If you guys didn't know I am the one that posted the subject "I'm about to lose my mom" a few weeks ago. Well just to update everyone, she has taken a turn for the worse. Her oncologist is saying it will be a matter of weeks, if that. I came home from…
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Shine on, you crazy diamonds
Today my son and I were tooling along in my "if I'm dying I'm dying in a nice ride" ride, and he asked, "So, dad, if that Doctor had been right last year, you might not be here right now, right?". The doctor, Onco Man, had advised that I might have as little as 10 months to live. June of '07. He was wrong, of course. I…
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2008 Christmas Message Board
Just thought it might be nice to create a Christmas Message Board for all to add to if you wish. I want to personally wish all those on this CSN site who I have chatted with in chat and on the discussion boards/through email a Merry Xmas and a Merry Xmas as well to all CSN staff who work so hard on the site. I hope you all…
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Children of Cancer Patients
I am not sure if I should even be here on this message board but you all are the only thing that I could find that looked like it could help me. I am the daughter of a very brave man. His name was Phil and this February 9th it will be 2 years since he lost his battle with cancer. I thought that I was able to handle the…
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Need someone's input
I was diagnosed with ALL in March of 06 and started therapy right away. In June of that same year I went into remission, but still continued chemo and radiation therapy as scheduled. I went back to work moved out into my own apartment and in April of this year I had a relapse. I went into the hospital and they implanted an…
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Divorce, illness and the Holidays - so it starts, sigh
Sigh. here we go. Is it unavoidable or not so much? My son just got here from out of town for the holidays and my ex (grrrr) only brought him in for a week. In Canada only a week to fly from one province to another in the winter is nuts, snowstorms make the cancellation and delay situation almost a certainty thus reducing…
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Pet Therapy
One of my two cats is lying here between my keyboard and the monitor, pawing at the mouse icon as it flies across the screen (she just fell asleep from exhaustion, lol) and it made me want to acknowledge her and my other cat for the great stress relievers that they truly are, and have been, all through my fight with cancer…
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Why Do People "Bin" You when you have cancer???
I Have had AMAZING support from friends and Family , Like I never expected. BUT Other friends (and Yes family too) Dropped me like a Hot Potato just after Dx. They were all "Oh I'm Sooooooooo Sorry, keep in touch, let me know if we can do anything.... etc, etc" Then.. NOWT! Even some of the Brogue Brigade (God Squad) have…
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in laws
well my last post was about the appointment, this one is about Brian's sister. She is driving me up the wall and stepping on my toes. She called here on the Sunday before Brian and I saw the dr asking if Brian still was thinking about surgery and if it was for himself or his family. Then she phone the night of the dr…
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New to this
I am trying to deal with just finding out in Sept. that my significat other of 23 years has stage 4 Large B Cell Non-Hodgekins lymphoma. He has gotten his 2nd Chemo treatment last Tues. We have spen 4 of the last 5 weeks in the hospital. I am at a loss as to what way to turn. Bill is very depressed and giving up I just…
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Finding work for cancer survivors
I am a twenty year broadcast veteran in NY who just completed my second round of cancer and chemo. I am ready to go back to work, but, cannot find a job. My background has been mostly in talk radio as a producer and host. The business has changed drastically in the last several years, so the work opportunities have…
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Help
I'm new and I want to create a profile, but when I click on create 'About me' page, it want go. Any ideas? katwoman2
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I'm about to lose my mom
Hi Everyone, I just needed to write on here and get out some of my sadness. I just turned 27 and have been through hell and back it seems in the past year and a half. To start off, my mother, who is my best friend, was diagnosed with Esophageal cancer May of last year. We were told she would not be here for that Christmas…
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Dropping Effexor
I have heard so many horror stories about giving up taking effexor. I am going to do it, from mildly depressed, effexor has given me a gateway to clinically depressed......I feel it dumbing my down and I have to get off this stuff.......My Doc listened to me and said he'd give me a 37.5 dose to try and wean myself off…
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DEC 15TH
Dec 15th is looming, it is one year anniversary of my sister's passing to pancreatic cancer. I assisted in the last two weeks of her care, she did not want me there at first because I was barely out of treatment myself. In her last moments she was attempting to spare me. Once I was there though she was happy to have me…